June 2021 Female Tech Leaders Magazine

MIND-BLOWING BUSINESS
WOMEN STATISTICS 2021
Do you know that 36% of women own a small business?
However, in the countries of the Middle East this number is less than 10% while in the USA
women own four out of ten businesses?
Women dominate sectors like beauty, health, and fitness industry as well food places and
restaurants, retail stores, education-related businesses, and provide business services and in
the USA, there are more than 12 million women currently own some kind of business.
Entrepreneurship statistics show that only 30% of female business owners are younger than
40 (takes years to build connections and financial capital) and that more than 80% of these
women have a college degree.
Tech industry
At the moment, there are 12 "unicorns" founded by women (or part of the founder team) in a
total of 357 unicorns globally but according to a consulting group study, women-owned
businesses are safer for investors and women are 9% less likely to seek funding in the first
place because they are subjected to more scrutiny than their male counterparts when facing
investors.
Only 50% of the startups have at least one female founder and at least one woman sits on the
board of directors in half of the world startups but things are changing and we now see that
60% of startups have some program to increase the number of women in executive positions
because it has been proved women in leadership brings a better return on investment or
better annual earnings.