And then, says Harvey, there's the economy which has suffered. Many of the women who've been laid off have decided to take matters into their own hands and become business owners.
Harvey, who used to be a small business owner herself, says the federal government is there to help women in a number of ways. "Last year we helped about 160,000 women with business plans, marketing plans, social media interactions, everything that you need to build a business," Harvey explains.
Barbara Ayers says special federal government programs offered to small, female-owned companies have helped her procure government contracts. And it has opened doors in areas that have traditionally been closed to women.
"I'm in the trucking industry and so I'm a novelty because this is traditionally a male-dominated industry," Ayers notes. "So I sometimes find resistance. No reflection on men, but it is just the attitude and the thought of the way that it was."
But Ayers says it has all been worthwhile and adds that it is a tremendous feeling of pride when sees one of her own trucks on the highway.
That feel of pride is being shared by more and more American women entrepreneurs.
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