Did you know that more than one in four U.S. businesses are owned by women?   

According to the 2007 Survey of Business Ownership released last year — the most recent census data available — women owned about 7.8 million nonfarm businesses nationwide, that’s 28.7 percent of U.S. businesses.

A 2012 analysis of that census data by the National Women’s Business Council found the survival rate of women-owned businesses is 78.2 percent. More than half of those that survived expanded. Nearly half of women-owned businesses are in service-oriented fields.

Women are getting more education while delaying having families, and opportunities are now more available to start their own firms, said LaTrice Moore, a professor of business administration and coordinator of the entrepreneurship program at Polk State College.

Read the full article in The Ledger.