Chapter 13: Small Business, Women and People of Color

We have seen (in Chapter 1) that women, African-Americans and Hispanics in the United States are less likely to be business proprietors than to be employees. In the late 20^th and the early 21^st centuries, it has been a major policy goal in the United States and some other countries to increase the role of women and people of color in small business. This chapter will explore the status of women and people of color in small business, along with some of the policy responses and some attempt to understand the reasons for the difference in status between people of different kinds in a market economy…