May 2004
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
7h
English
book
Clearing the Hurdles: Women Building High-Growth Businesses
by Candida G. Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth J. Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene, Myra M. Hart
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120 CLEARING THE HURDLES: WOMEN BUILDING HIGH-GROWTH BUSINESSES
is one of the most effective means of improving women’s economic
well-being. In 1998, women householders who had founded a business
had an average income level 2.5 times that of those women who were
wage earners, and their net worth was more than 6 times greater than
that of those without a business.
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Do Women Have the Requisite Financial
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience?
Are the assumptions that women lack the appropriate knowledge,
skills, and experience to be good financial managers accurate? Is it rea-
sonable to believe that women aren’t good business managers because
they suffer from “math anxiety?” There is strong evidence that, for
decades, girls and young women did experience strongly ...
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