Women Entrepreneurs Rise

Creating jobs at a faster rate than men. Mark D. Wolf, Forbes Woman:

The projection also reflects the timely fact that female-owned businesses, more often self-funded than male-owned ones, are therefore less reliant on bank financing at a time when many say small business lending practices are more restricted.

A competitive advantage. Not necessarily healthy for the economy overall, though, or in the long term. One of the factors is fewer males graduating from college, which points to the feminization of our education system early on.