Women are starting companies at a faster rate than men, as they have been for years. But you know who's really rocking it? Women of color.
At least that's what preliminary data from the U.S. Census Bureau, in its Survey of Business Owners, shows. In 2012, women owned about 9.9 million U.S. businesses, or about 36.2 percent of the total. That's a 27.5 percent rate of growth since 2007, the last time the Survey of Business Owners was released. Among employer firms--those that employ at least one other person besides the founder--the number of women-owned firms grew 19.5 percent, while the number of firms owned by men grew 11.5 percent.
