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Women small-business owners accounted for only 3.3 percent of all federal contracts awarded in 2005, below the government-wide target of 5 percent, a recent study found.
Women owners were underrepresented in more than half of the industries analyzed, including manufacturing, construction, education services, and health care, according to the RAND Corporation, a non-profit research group based in Santa Monica, Calif.
Yet, when the dollar value of these contracts was used a basis for measure, women federal contractors tended to be more on par with men, researchers found.
The study was conducted for the Small Business Administration.
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Jim Peake on May 2nd, 2007 at 5:43 am
Women are getting screwed by Washington, D.C. This is an amazing eyeopener of a podcast on how small businesses are treated in washington dc. we have another interview coming out with a small biz lobbyist.
When Bill Clinton left office, he passed legislation in congress that was only a 5% contracting goal for women owned firms instead of 50% representative of the female population.
the Bush Administration is not meeting the 5%.
FranchiseBrief.com on May 2nd, 2007 at 11:47 am
the bush administration is NOT meeting a lot of things…