Happy International Women’s Day 2007!

Here are some quick empowering news coverage of home-based women entrepreneurs and mompreneurs for today:

Business owners increasingly opt to stay at home

Census figures show that 56 percent of home-based businesses are run by women, and organizations such as the Association of Home-Based Working Moms are helping to increase those numbers.

Lesley Spencer Pyle, founder of the organization, said women are lured to home-based businesses because of the flexibility it provides new mothers and those looking to spend more time with their children.

Ranks of ‘mompreneurs’ growing in Canada.

“Women are saying they want to have more control over how much time they spend with their families,” Kathryn Bechthold, founder of the Calgary-based Mompreneur Networking Group Inc., told the Globe and Mail.

The group offers training and resources to women who have started or want to start a home-based business, and also publishes a free magazine called The Mompreneur.

Subscribe for a free copy here.

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Posted on March 8th, 2007 by ponnsabra
Filed under: Entrepreneurialism