Huffington Post: South Carolina ranks 8th in the top 15 states for female entrepreneurs
According to a report in the Huffington Post, South Carolina is the 8th best state in the nation for growth in women-owned businesses.
According to the report, nationally women-owned businesses have grown at a rate 1.5 times faster than all businesses–50 percent since 1997. In South Carolina, the growth rate for the same period was 63.6 percent. There were 105,100 women-owned businesses in South Carolina in 2011.
The number one state for women-owned businesses?: Georgia. Eight of the top 15 states are in the South. Read the report at huffingtonpost.com by clicking here.