{"id":2858,"date":"2008-03-31T08:59:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T13:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/31\/power-womens\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:56:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:56:05","slug":"power-womens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/31\/power-womens\/","title":{"rendered":"Power women"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230; women in low- and middle-income nations were found to be more than twice as likely to be involved in early-stage business start-ups as those in high-income nations&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why this? Are these women better than us at leaving their comfort zone, at handling risk and insecurity?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In Russia, women were involved in 39.9 percent of all early-stage entrepreneurial activity, while in the Philippines they were involved in 22.5 percent, the study found. That compares to just 2.3 percent in Sweden and 1 percent in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, about a third of the world&#8217;s entrepreneurial activity is driven by women, the study found.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/news\/articles\/200703\/women.html?partner=rss\">Women in Poorer Nations Twice as Likely to Become Entrepreneurs<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/girlatplay.com\/chronicles\/2007\/10\/low_income_nati.htm\">Girl at Play<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230; women in low- and middle-income nations were found to be more than twice as likely to be involved in early-stage business start-ups as those in high-income nations&#8221; Why this? Are these women better than us at leaving their comfort zone, at handling risk and insecurity? &#8220;In Russia, women were involved in 39.9 percent of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/31\/power-womens\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Power women<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[313,312,311,314],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6874,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions\/6874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}