HeForShe: In conjunction with National Women’s Small Business month
Wed, Oct 27
|The Toledo Museum of Art-Glass Pavillion
October is National Women's Small Business Month celebrating the creative entrepreneurs who took the plunge to start a small business despite gender barriers.
Time & Location
Oct 27, 2021, 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM
The Toledo Museum of Art-Glass Pavillion, 2444 Monroe St, Toledo, OH 43620, USA
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About the event
October is National Women's Small Business Month celebrating the creative entrepreneurs who took the plunge to start a small business despite gender barriers. According to the 2020 report from the National Women’s Business Council, in 1972, women only owned 4.6% of all businesses in the United States. Now women own 42% of businesses in the United States. Here’s more good news about this important sector of the U.S. economy:
There are nearly 13 million women-owned businesses in the United States, employing 9.4 million workers and generating revenue of $1.9 trillion.
Women-owned businesses generate $1.9 trillion annually.
Women of color account for 50% of female business owners.
The challenges to women-owned businesses today aren’t too different from the challenges in the past: access to capital, childcare responsibilities, and continue, a subtle societal prejudice against women entrepreneurs.
HeForShe is UN Women’s solidarity movement for gender equality. HeForShe invites men and boys to…
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Admission
Admission to the program and dinner for 1.
$35.00
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