(StatePoint) There are over 1.3 million Asian American women-owned businesses today, generating $265.2 billion in revenue and employing 1.4 million people.
That’s according to the 2024 Wells Fargo Impact of Women-Owned Businesses report, which finds that despite this robust growth and the important contributions these entrepreneurs make to the U.S. economy, systemic racial and gender-based discrimination and barriers put them at a disadvantage.
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