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Entrepreneurship as an Alternate Gateway to Professional Success for Canadian Women

June 30, 2008 | Comments Off on Entrepreneurship as an Alternate Gateway to Professional Success for Canadian Women

By Margaret Page The facts are undeniable; more and more Canadian women are leaving corporate careers, escaping a field of institutionalized limitations and reaching for the freedom and flexibility of self employment. Canada is a global leader when it comes to women entrepreneurship. In fact, with more than 821,000 women entrepreneurs in Canada, this is one of the fastest growing segments of the Canadian economy – that is, 10 percent of all Canadian women are self employed. According to Stats Canada, women are leaving the workforce at twice the rate…