Columbia Metro Area ranks 4th worst for women-owned businesses – WalletHub Study

With Women’s History Month just around the corner and women-owned businesses accounting for nearly a third of all privately held companies in the U.S. and growing 1.5 times faster than the national average, the personal-finance website WalletHub conducted an in-depth analysis of 2016’s Best & Worst Metro Areas for Women-Owned Businesses.

To help women advance their goals of entrepreneurship, WalletHub’s analysts compared the 100 largest metropolitan statistical areas, or MSAs, across 10 key metrics. Our data set ranges from average revenue growth of women-owned businesses to presence of women’s business centers to industry variety for women-owned firms.

Owning a Business as a Woman in Columbia (1=Best; 50=Avg.)

• 44^th – % of Women-Owned Businesses
• 43^rd – Average % Growth of Women-Owned Businesses
• 53^rd – % of Employees in Women-Owned Businesses
• 93^rd – Average Revenue of Women-Owned Businesses
• 64^th – Average Revenue Growth of Women-Owned Businesses
• 22^nd – Industry Variety for Women-Owned Firms
• 96^th – WalletHub ‘Working Moms’ Ranking
• 93^rd – WalletHub ‘Gender Inequality’ Ranking

For the full report, please visit:
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-places-for-women-owned-businesses/19254/

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