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Female entrepreneurship has been recognized as an important source of economic growth. Female entrepreneurs create new jobs for themselves and others and also provide society with different solutions to management, organisation, and business problems. However, they still represent a minority of all entrepreneurs.
There were 337 women listed on the world's billionaires as of 4 April 2023, up from 327 in 2022. [1] Since 2021, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers has been listed as the world's wealthiest woman. According to a 2021 billionaire census, women make up 11.9% of the billionaire cohort, and "just over half of all female billionaires are heiresses, with ...
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An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative. [1] This list includes notable entrepreneurs. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Uche Eze (born 1983), social media expert, entrepreneur, founder of the BellaNaija online magazine; Kehinde Kamson (born 1961), entrepreneur, founder and CEO of the fast food company Sweet Sensation Confectionery; Abibatu Mogaji (1917–2013), business magnate, President-General, Association of Nigerian Market Women and Men
Share of firms with female top managers by region. In the 59 economies included in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor research project, female entrepreneurship ranges from just over 1.5% to 45.4% of the adult female population. [23]
Thailand has the highest proportion of female CEOs in the world, with 30 percent of companies employing female CEOs, followed by the People's Republic of China, with 19 percent. [2] In the European Union the figure is 9 percent and in the United States it is 5 percent. [2] In 2024, 10.4% of the CEOs at companies in the Fortune 500 were female. [3]
This is a list of Women CEOs of the Fortune 500, based on the magazine's 2024 list (updated yearly). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As of Sept, 2024, women were CEOs at 10.4 percent of Fortune 500 companies. Fortune 500 women CEOs as of 2024 (52 women)