Be the Employer instead of an Employee

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With that money she could start or buy a small business and end her pay inequality.

Still doesn’t pay for women to be employees, maybe that’s why women are starting small businesses faster than other demographic groups. Instead of relying on equal pay from your employer, be the employer.

Consider these facts:

  •  In 2000, women owned only 33% of all small businesses, today women own 51% of all small businesses
  • Women-owned businesses contribute nearly $3 trillion to our national economy and create or maintain 23 million jobs
  • Guardian Life Small Business Research Institute projects that women-owned businesses will create an additional 5+ million jobs by 2018

source: We’re Just Getting Started