Ga. Women-Owned Business Statistic Not All Good News
By Lisa Hagen
Gov. Nathan Deal recently tweeted a headline that read “Georgia sees fastest growth in number of women-owned firms since 1997.”
That may be true, but it’s not the whole picture.
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“In the overall labor market, women earn 78 cents for every dollar that men earn, but in the business world, women-owned businesses earn only about 25 cents on the dollar that men-owned businesses do,” Jessica Milli, a researcher with the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, said.