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Surprise! Women started more firms than men. PDF Print E-Mail
Written by Elizabeth Fuller - CS Monitor   
Wednesday, 29 December 2010

Article Source: CS Monitor

Before the recession, women were starting twice as many firms as men. Now, they may do even better.

Ruth Marvin Webster and her tennis partner, Kathy Doherty, spent years making puns at their racquet club: "Love all," "Get a grip," "Tightly strung," "Yours!" They'd even joked about turning their witticisms into a T-shirt business. So after Ms. Webster was laid off in 2008 from her job as a features writer for a San Diego daily, the pair took the plunge and started Net Wit, a business so new that its website only went up in mid-November.

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