Since the beggining of the 20TH century, women are owning more rights all around the world, and the usual model of the Housewife is desappearing slowly. Women are fighting for more equality, and we fortunately can see changes on political,  social and economic points.  New movements are born to protect and claim those rights, as the Feminism.

          Let's focus on their place in the professional world, and more especially in the  entreprenarial world. As a definition, we can say that entrepreneurs are individuals who design, launch and run a new business. According to Schumpeter, they are supposed to take risks and to innovate. They are looking for profit, but they also have to be honorable managers and to ensure their employee's well-being.

In this context, some entrepreneurs apply a feminist management, which means they try to improve women's working conditions. Sometimes they create "for women, by women" companies. Their values are mutual respect, ethics changes and equality for both genders. 

          In History, moreover in patriarcal societies, women were not owning there own business, before the 20th century, or in the rare cases, they were small ones, to increase their incomes. Nowadays, female entrepreneurship represent almost 1/3 of entrepreneurs in the world, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report. In the 30 last years, the number of self-employed women increased approximatly of  thirty-three percent. Many of them work from home and they are generally performing  in wholesale, retail trade, and manufacturing. 

In the majority of OECD countries, women are more likely to work in services industry than men. In addition, they start their own business as a second or third profession, this is the reason why the average age of female entrepreneurs is between 48 and 58.

          We can notice that there's a disparity of Woman's place in Business worldwide: in opposition to our beliefs, developping countries are more likely to run a business than in the biggest countries. The reason of this phenomenon is the need to increase their incomes. For example, the highest number of females involved in entrepreneurial activities is Sub-Saharan Africa, with 27% of the female population, followed by the Latin America/Caribbean area with 15%. The lowest numbers are in Asia, with the Pakistan, where the female entrepreneurs account for 1%.

In Europe, women represent 34,4% of the EU self-employed. Because female potential has been under-exploited for decades and it would be a great source of economic growth, The European Commission decided to promote and support female entrepreneurship with a plan for 2020 and an award for woman innovators.

          The biggest challenges for women entrepreneurs are to access to finance and to information. They need training, advices and a competent network. More other, they have to deal with both business and family concerns.

          Some crafty people understood the potencial of the rising popularity of entrepreneurship for women, and they create an all new business around it. It became a magazine topic, and many training programs are sold. Fairs are organized, such as the Women entrepreneurship week NextGen in Zurich, in June 2017.

          To conclude, we can hope an improvement of Woman's condition in the entreprenarial world for the next decades.