During Global Entrepreneurs Week, Lawrence Technological University Hosted the “Michigan Association for Female Entrepreneurs”, Presented: Women Entrepreneurs: Drivers of the New Economy”. By Sybil Hill

Thanks to MAFE Executive Director & Founder Tonya McNeal-Weary and Lawrence Tech’s Katie Jolly, Entrepreneurship Department, Lawrence Technological University, Entrepreneur Coordinator.

On 17 November 2012, Entrepreneurial Women from all around Michigan, Georgia, and Ohio, executives from corporate entities the Big 3, the Federal Government, Educators, Students, and Volunteers converged upon Lawrence Tech; Where ,”Possible is Everything”, to engage in Networking and hear about the drivers of the new economy, “Women”.. More and more women, because of economic climate have to find jobs, so women many times have to create their own jobs.

Women entrepreneurs are rising up, as funding support is more available to small businesses and the costs involved in starting companies have gone down. Working women play a central role in today’s American economy; more women are taking their business ideas a step forward to launch their own companies. A 2012 report by the White House Council on Women and Girls states American women now own 30 percent of small businesses, generating $1.2 trillion a year in sales.