In a recent ranking of all the states, DC and Maryland ranked the highest for female business ownership reports Southern Maryland Online.
The 2007 census figures show that women in Maryland own 33 percent of businesses, up from 31 percent in 2002, the last time the survey was conducted. That rate outstrips the nationwide pace of increasing women’s ownership. Nationally in 2007, 29 percent of businesses were women-owned, up from 28 percent in 2002.
The bump has come without any specific Maryland legislation driving it, according to Saltzberg.
“We have not had any legislative pushes for women-owned businesses,” she said, in terms of “political programming and policy (for women-owned businesses), Maryland’s not one of the most aggressive states in the union.”
Instead, Saltzberg attributes Maryland’s success to other factors. Entrepreneurship thrives here “because we have a highly educated workforce and we have the government, you certainly can’t minimize that.
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