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Women and Wealth

Women own more than 47% of the stocks. (Source: Peter Hart and NASD and the Investment Institute)
Women are projected to acquire over 85% of the $12 trillion growth of U.S. private wealth between 1995 and 2010.(Source: Marti Barletta of TrendSight Group)

Women and Business Ownership

Today there are 9.1 million women-owned businesses in the U.S., representing nearly 40% of all businesses.
They employ 27.5 million people and generate more than $3.6 trillion in sales.
Women are starting new firms at twice the rate of all other businesses.
*Sources: NFWBO and SBA

Education

Since 1984, the number of women in graduate schools has exceeded the number of men. (Source: National Center for Education Statistics, 1997)
Women received 238,563 of the Master's degrees conferred in 1996-1997, whereas men earned 181,062 of the Master' degrees conferred in 1996-97. (Source: Department of Education)

Women Top-Ranked* Professional Schools
Engineering 15%
Business 30%
Law 44%
Medicine 45%
*Top-ranked schools by U.S. News and World Report

Gender Roles

Magazines are much more geared to showing women as the "fix-up moms" and "fix-up owners" of their dwelling. (Source: Builder Magazine)
Women are moving up from smaller tools such as hammers and screwdrivers to heavy duty equipment such as power drills. (Source: Home Improvement Resource Institute)

Restaurant-related data

Women in business have time pressures and are eating out more.
Women business owners dine out with more frequency than women employees.
68% of women business owners and 60% of women employees dine out with their families at sit-down or fast-food establishments at least once a week. (Source: Women Business Owners as Consumers: Transforming the Marketplace, with AT&T and the Principal Financial Group)

Vision:

We will create a cooperative venture among the many community and woman's organizations and businesses to offer a venue that welcomes all women who are in search of
Empowerment thru Opportunity, Education and Economic Awareness.