Rural Women Entrepreneurs: Challenges and Opportunities (NWBC)

This report offers a comprehensive profile of rural women entrepreneurs, comparing them to rural men and non-rural women, and identifying the structural barriers they face (such as limited access to capital, infrastructure deficits, geographic isolation, weak broadband, and sparse support services). It also suggests policy and programmatic levers to better integrate rural women into broader entrepreneurial ecosystems. nwbc.gov

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