The growth of businesses in Iowa owned by women ranks last in the nation, new data show.
Across America, businesses owned by women grew 20 percent from 2002 to 2007, U.S. Census data show, while female-owned companies in Iowa inched 3.8 percent higher. In all, Iowa businesses grew 10 percent.
The reasons female-owned businesses are slow to grow in Iowa are among the same reasons the state's overall startup rate is sluggish, experts say: Midwest aversion to risk. Lack of investment capital. Iowa's overall snail's pace economic growth.
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