Summary: Female entrepreneurs are a large and growing market in Canada, but you might not know just how large. According to Statistics Canada, there are about 1.1 million employer businesses in Canada. Fully 46 percent of them have some degree of female ownership; 19 percent of all SMEs have equal partnerships between male and female owners; and 16 percent are majority own by women. Do the math and you’ll see that hundreds of thousands of Canadian companies are owned and run by women. Their economic contributions are huge. Despite the hefty vibrancy of this segment of the business world, female entrepreneurs continue to face some barriers to their success. In this episode of the Business Coach Podcast Ian chats with Professor Barbara Orser, Deloitte Chair in the Management of Growth Enterprises at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa.
