Are Female Entrepreneurs Segregated? - Ideas Market - WSJ

Are Female Entrepreneurs Segregated? - Ideas Market - WSJ: "Cities are founts of entrepreneurial activity partly because ambitious people working alongside one another become more creative, but a new study suggests that women are often cut off from such connections—that female entrepreneurs are segregated.

Using market research from Dun & Bradstreet, the authors looked at the distribution of female-owned businesses in 35 industries in Metropolitan Statistical Areas with at least (roughly) 100,000 people. They compared the locations of those businesses with those of enterprises not owned by women.  Female owned companies, they found, were less likely to be in business-dense regions (the measure used: how many jobs of all kinds are located within one mile of the business?);"

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