Immigrant women entrepreneurs are driving a business revolution in every region of the United States, according to a new report by the Immigration Policy Center. In 2010, 40 percent of all immigrant business owners were women-1,451,091 immigrant men and 980,575 immigrant women. That same year, 20 percent of all women business owners were foreign-born.
The report, Our American Immigrant Entrepreneurs: The Women, points to a large increase in immigrant women’s entrepreneurship rates between 2000 and 2010. Immigrant and native‐born women’s