{"id":11249,"date":"2025-05-25T17:30:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T17:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lightpink-tiger-338553.hostingersite.com\/?p=11249"},"modified":"2025-08-03T23:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T23:59:19","slug":"the-number-of-women-founders-has-doubled-in-the-last-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.huky.it\/en\/the-number-of-women-founders-has-doubled-in-the-last-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"The Number of Women Founders Has Doubled in the Last Five Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.weforum.org\/docs\/WEF_GGGR_2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Global Gender Gap Report 2022<\/strong><\/a> reveals a new and encouraging trend in female entrepreneurship. For the first time, the report includes an analysis of the gender gap specifically within entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What stands out\u2014based on the <em>job titles<\/em> (founder and co-founder) listed in LinkedIn profiles across 22 countries\u2014is that the number of <strong>women entrepreneurs<\/strong> has increased <strong>at a higher rate than men<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In particular, the share of <strong>women founders<\/strong> has <strong>doubled over the past five years<\/strong>. As illustrated in the accompanying chart, this trend continued both during and after the pandemic, with a <strong>43% increase between 2019 and 2020<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"964\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/huky.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-10.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.huky.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-10.png 964w, https:\/\/www.huky.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-10-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/www.huky.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-10-768x462.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"964\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/huky.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.huky.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-11.png 964w, https:\/\/www.huky.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-11-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/www.huky.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-11-768x462.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Global Gender Gap Report 2022 reveals a new and encouraging trend in female entrepreneurship. For the first time, the report includes an analysis of the gender gap specifically within entrepreneurship. What stands out\u2014based on the job titles (founder and co-founder) listed in LinkedIn profiles across 22 countries\u2014is that the number of women entrepreneurs has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":11208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-female-empowerment","category-startup-eng"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huky.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huky.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huky.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huky.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huky.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.huky.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11740,"href":"https:\/\/www.huky.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249\/revisions\/11740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huky.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huky.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huky.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huky.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}