WOB wire reported the results of a survey of women owned businesses and 60% said they would categorize their business as service-oriented.
While, I think it's great that women own their own businesses - I kinda wished the number for service wasn't so high. I think its incredibly hard to be self-employed, which is why I have always worked for a company. Is it because a service is easier to sell as opposed to a gadget?
At the same time I saw that Sony was offering scholarships to women for game design. It turns out women a big gamers, but very few go into game design. I commend Sony for trying to change that.
Then - bear with me - I saw that the SBA is offering a special program for women owned businesses that started this February, http://archive.sba.gov/aboutsba/sbaprograms/onlinewbc/index.html.
Ok, so you see already there are plenty of women starting businesses, there are opportunities for women to go into businesses they normally don't go in and then finally there is help.
I may not have the guts to be self-employed but as I see these things, I will post them on this blog and spread the message.
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