Celebrating Island Women in Business
I started my first business in the late 1990s - a magazine, of course. I needed a job, so I created one. Over the past two decades I've been self-employed a majority of that time and "mistakes, I've made a few" - but every mistake was a lesson. Every time I wanted to quit I found myself so inspired by other businesswomen that I simply picked myself up and moved forward with determination. I witness that same tenaciousness every day in the women I meet and it makes me so proud to be a part of it. There were 1,079,000 self-employed women in Canada in 2018, accounting for 37% of all self-employed persons. Almost 60% (635,000) were unincorporated businesses with no employees. There were 1,781,600 self-employed men in 2018. A much smaller percentage of self-employed men (39%) were unincorporated and had no employees.
Words by Jacqui Chaisson
PEI has an amazing group of women in the business community - both those who own and operate their own ventures and those who create success for businesses they're involved with.
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www.pei-living.ca SPRING 2019
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