From left, Shantel Collins, Sophia Crawford and Veronica Cooper talk at Culture Coffee Too, a coffeehouse owned by Cooper. She’s coming of age when it’s not unusual to see women-owned businesses in the city, which can be inspiring. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post)The District is home to 68,236 small businesses, according to census data, with 27,000 owned by women. This gap only widens when factoring in other minority groups.”Similar troubling patterns show up nationally in a 2018 American Express report of women-owned businesses. But outcomes were just the opposite for businesses owned by white women.

Source: Washington Post October 01, 2019 23:12 UTC