This research examines differences in wealth, business experience, professional networks, and access to capital that affect the ability of different entrepreneur groups to start and expand their businesses. By analyzing race, ethnicity, business size, and geographic region among women-owned businesses in the post-pandemic periods of 2022–2025 and 2024–2025, the study offers insights to inform practical policies, programs, and funding decisions.

Today, women’s businesses contribute $3.3 trillion in annual revenues to our economy.

The gender pay gap is well documented: women make about 80 cents for every dollar that a man earns. Less well known: the gender investment gap.

This fact sheet profiles typical traits, challenges, and sector distributions of women-owned businesses as of 2025.

The goal of this research is to inform and establish a baseline understanding of the dynamics of rural women entrepreneurs, comparing them to rural men entrepreneurs and non-rural women entrepreneurs.

The 2025 Impact of Women-Owned Businesses (Wells Fargo / Ventureneer)

This report examines the effectiveness of the Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Federal Contract Program, reviewing existing literature, federal contracting data, and program outcomes.

This study examines how women's business ownership changes over time by age.

We found that women are underrepresented in the STEM and STEM-adjacent fields.

The gig economy is on the rise, and women account for an outsized share of the increase in the temporary self-employed workforce over the past 20 years.