I've heard one too many female entrepreneurs preface a challenge they've had with the statement "maybe it's just because I'm a woman but I find it hard to"...(you can fill in the blank): ask for what I want; settle for something less than perfect; not to try to do it all myself. These statements make me cringe. I'm not a fan of sweeping gender generalizations and I'm certainly not keen on women attributing their challenges (challenges that many people experience by the way) to the fact that they are female. Women entrepreneurs get enough flak for not being more like men without us jumping on the bandwagon ourselves.I can't say whether any of the oft-recited gender stereotypes are true ("scientific" studies always seem to be contradictory in their findings), but let's pretend for a moment that they are. Then let's pretend that these differences aren't deficits (gasp) and instead are assets. What if gender differences made women even better business owners? It's not hard to make a compelling case.
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