New Trend: Entrepreneurship Is The New Women's Movement

This should not come as a surprise: women leaving the workforce to become stay at home entrepreneurs! I am seeing this everyday at Market America (MA) and they are very successful at it. Even a perfunctory glance of pictures of successful people in the MA monthly magazine show a predominance of women. Their strong desire to be independent and be home to rear their children is without a doubt their chief motivation.

The Forbes magazine has this to say:

Women are leaving the workforce in droves in favor of being at home. Not to be a homemaker, but as job-making entrepreneurs.

By Natalie MacNeil

A quiet revolution is taking shape right now among women. Unlike the Quiet Revolutionthat began in the 1970s which saw women leave the home and enter the workforce in droves, women today are leaving the workforce in droves in favor of being at home. But unlike generations of women before, these women are opting to work in the home not as homemakers—but as job-making entrepreneurs.

Women have been starting businesses at a higher rate than men for the last 20 years and tend to create home-based micro (less than 5 employees) and small businesses. Women will create over half of the 9.72 million new small business jobs expected to be created by 2018 and more and more are doing this from home offices across the country. It’s a surprising statistic, especially considering that women-owned businesses only created 16 percent of total U.S. jobs that existed in 2010.

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