How Women Can Save the American Economy
Posted by
Victoria Pynchon
on May 12, 2011
Economic recovery depends upon the entrepreneurial class. We’re the ones who are the prime movers of new job creation. That’s what Lesa Mitchell tells us this morning in her post Women Entrepreneurs Are Trapped Within Glass Walls. “The new firms on their way to becoming big,” she writes, “create the lion’s share of new jobs, and become the anchors for new industries.” The new Google, Apple, and Microsoft. That’s where new jobs are made. We women, who are vastly over-represented in public employment and therefore lagging behind the guys in recovery from joblessness (Women Trail Men in New Job Gains) are not playing the role our country needs us to play to get people back to work. Frankly, we’d really rather be rearranging our sock drawers. Read on at the Forbes Woman She Negotiates Blog.
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