It’s time to stop giving women entrepreneurs special help. They don’t need it.
Women business owners get lots of help, from both government and private sources. The federal apparatus includes the women’s business office in the SBA, a network of more than 100 women’s business centers, government contracting setasides for woman-owned businesses, and government-backed loan programs for woman-owned businesses. Some gender-specific government programs are replicated at state and local levels, especially contracting setasides. The private initiatives include Make Mine a Million $ Business, a program sponsored by American Express that supplies women entrepreneurs with coaching, financing and marketing help.
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Author: Mark Henricks
