women entrepreneurs

Female entrepreneurs are women who organize, operate, and manage businesses, often overcoming gender-based social, financial, and cultural barriers. Female entrepreneurship has steadily increased in the United States during the 20th and 21st century, with number of female owned businesses increasing at a rate of 5% since 1997. This growth has led to the rise of wealthy self-made females such as Coco Chanel, Diane Hendricks, Meg Whitman, and Oprah Winfrey.