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Business women. Women-owned business accounted for 28 percent of private companies

Tamara O’Connor spent two years planning before opening Casa Savie in downtown Coeur d’Alene. It was her second time in the business, and with lots of help and advice she found if fairly easy to become one of thousands of female business owners, the fastest growing segment of private business.

The number of women-owned businesses, many of them one-person enterprises, grew at twice the national rate for all private companies from 1997 to 2002.

About 28 percent of all private companies were owned by women in 2002, according to the report being released Thursday by the Census Bureau.

The report, which found the fastest growth rates in Nevada and Georgia, focused on privately owned companies, as opposed to those with publicly traded stocks.

"Attitudes about women in the workplace, period, have changed, let alone women running their own businesses," said Erin Fuller, executive director of the National Association of Women Business Owners. "It just hasn’t quickly enough or as much as we would hope for."

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER
Associated Press writer

Full Story: http://www.cdapress.com/articles/2006/01/29/business/bus01.txt

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