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How Women Are Rising in Business

Success

Women of color-owned firms saw a growth of 43% between 2014 and 2019, while firms owned by African American women saw both the highest growth rate (50%) and the highest number of “net new women-owned businesses” (42%). million workers and generating revenue of $1.9 of women-owned businesses.

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Administrative Training Pioneer Celebrates Unlikely 25-Year Anniversary

Office Dynamics

Along the way, the entrepreneur encountered massive and numerous setbacks that threatened the livelihood of the budding business: multiple re-locations, the tragic loss of Dave Burge (Joan’s spouse and VP of Operations) to pancreatic cancer, and Joan’s own medical emergency that nearly took her life and forced the business to its knees in 2014.