Although women make
up 55% of the population, only 1/2 of 1/2 of 1% of American businesses
are owned by women. If you're a woman in America, in fact, you have
better odds of hitting a large lottery jackpot than you do of
successfully operating a small business for more than a week or two. If
somehow, beyond all human comprehension, a woman slips through the
cracks and opens her own business, studies show that over 40% of women
in business run scrapbooking stores and the other 60% are nonprofits
(and not the good kind).
• Over 75% of woman-owned businesses go under within a mere 15 years!
• Over 95% of woman-owned businesses are funded by men who think they're cute.
* Women who aren't cute can still obtain a business loan, but must
do so at a bank and, unlike cute borrowers, must pay it back with
interest.
* Women make only 74% the money that men make, but 160% the noise.
* If you put two women-inbusiness in a room together, they will
find ways to cooperate so that both their businesses may prosper.
However, if you add a man-in-business to the mix, the two
women-in-business will claw each other's eyes out in order to gain his
favor.
* True or False: "Female-owned/maleoperated" businesses are seven
times more successful than "maleowned/ female-operated" businesses.*
* If you place all the calculators, pens, vanity mirrors and shiny
desk trinkets on top of the office refrigerator, a womanowned business
has to close down indefinitely until a man can be found who can get the
items back down for them.
* Did you know that a man-in-business can walk into a woman-owned
business, find the woman in charge, make her forget everything she ever
learned about business by locking eyes with her, march over to her
while she's stammering, grab her, roughly kiss her and then shove her
head away and walk out, and the woman-in-business will love it?
* Fun Fact: If a woman-in-business starts telling you the story of
how she got into business, you can tune her out completely and she'll
be so self-absorbed in her own story that she'll just keep going on and
on about it and never notice that you're just feigning interest in her
so you can score with her hot younger sister who works for a man.
* Many women now doing business in Asheville got their start in
Texas dancing on tabletops on weekdays as a way to bide the time until
a businessman could come along, pay off their debts, whisk them away to
a long weekend in Reno and then give them one of his extra businesses
he had in Asheville as a generous tip, and now here they are.
* Are you socially conscious enough to realize that, even in this
day and age, when a woman-in-business gets slapped on the butt by a
male customer, she is still forced to grin, bear it, bite her lip and
say "thank you" because this is a man's world, so buck up, buttercup?
* True
