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[ad_1] Women entrepreneurs run 30 percent of all small businesses, and together employ 7.9 million people and generate $1.4 trillion in sales (as of 2015). Needless to say, these are pretty staggering numbers. All that success is wonderful. However, there exists an underlying issue that is keeping women from being …
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