CHAPTER 1•WOMEN BECOMING ENTREPRENEURS 9
evidence that lack of adequate child care might have forced women to
keep their businesses smaller and more manageable.
Consequent of their choice of business and industry, their more
limited goals and their lack of familiarity with the systems, most
women entrepreneurs did not take advantage of commercial bank
loans, credit, and government programs before 1990. Networking orga-
nizations were less prominent, and social acceptance of women as
high-powered entrepreneurial superstars was unheard of. Without the
necessary infrastructure, most women entrepreneurs found they had a
narrow range of choices. The result was a greater proportion of smaller,
slow-growth business choices by women. Therefore, women have a ...