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This article was published on 21 August 2014 at 13:08.
There are still a minority – 21.4% of the total, about 1.3 million out of 6 total – but are born at a rate higher than the average (+0 73% increase recorded between April and June this year, compared to an overall average variation of 0.42%) and take advantage of the spaces that the crisis has opened.
The photograph of Italian women-owned businesses was taken by Unioncamere, with data updated to June 2014 On the one hand the growth of women-led reality is intertwined with the growing phenomenon dell’autoimpiego as a response to loss of employment; the other bodes well for the concentration of women-owned businesses in the services to people and businesses in sustainable tourism, in the recovery of food traditions, in the protection of the landscape and the artistic and cultural heritage, in the direction of a country in which the greatest possible wellness opportunities will be the intersection of manufacturing activities and crafts with the development of highly innovative services and technologies supported by the network.
SOLITUDE IN CONTROL – A weigh more on the perspectives of women who decide to do business – signals the Observatory female entrepreneurs – are the difficulties associated with loneliness decision in which entrepreneurs often find themselves operating, together with the frequent irreplaceability (due to the organizational structure adopted) – the figure entrepreneur in work processes and relationships with the market. A condition, which exposes the contingencies related to personal and family life of the owner, who often end up falling on the company making it more fragile. This calls for answers on the field, for example through training and customized assistance (coaching and mentoring), but also a policy able to listen and give specific answers to the component of female entrepreneurship.
GROWING TREND – According numbers, compared to the average of the entrepreneurs, women who are undertaking pay a relatively shorter than the market, as measured by the age of their companies: the share of women-owned businesses were born after 2000 – and therefore with less than 14 years of life – is equal to 65.7% of the existing ones (compared to 60.3% of the overall average), while only 12.4% can claim a date of birth anagrafe enterprises prior to 1990
At less experience is associated with a more marked fragility of the organizational structure: 65.5% of the assets managed by women is made in the form of sole proprietorship, as against an average of 54%. It also explains the more pronounced prevalence of extra-small size of women-owned businesses: 69.5% counting only the owner or a maximum of one employee, while 94.2% do not exceed the threshold of 5 workers (91.6 average).
AREAS AND DIMENSIONS – Considering the economic activity, the areas where the presence of micro-enterprises rose is higher are agriculture, financial and insurance activities, real estate activities and the professional, scientific and techniques.
With the increase in firm size, the proportion of women thins until it becomes really small elite of large enterprises. Of a total of 4,276 companies with more than 250 employees, those led by women are just 230 (5.4%), and between large (over 500 employees), of 1,734 companies, those led by women are 80 (the 4.6%).
“The company of women – says the president of Unioncamere, Ferruccio Dardanello – confirms less structured and more undersized compared to the national average of entrepreneurship, and for this reason has ample room for development that should be examined in order to boost ‘employment and growth. It should be supported and promoted the desire of many women, capable and qualified, who look to the company and the market as an opportunity to be protagonists of their own life project. Faced with these aspirations, and with an economy that does not restart, institutions have a duty to give concrete answers to facilitate these routes. The chamber system, through the network of committees for women’s entrepreneurship in every chamber of commerce, provides tools aimed at the development of these projects and initiatives for training, access to credit, internationalization. “
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