The road to entrepreneurship is different for everyone, and for women who have braved the path, it’s often a road of dizzying twists and hairpin turns. Many women navigate career, motherhood, family and gender-specific roadblocks and detours—such as limited funding and lack of support.
Yet the number of women-owned businesses is growing exponentially. The Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) reporting that as of 2020, women owned 12.3 million or 42% of businesses in the United States.