Women-owned businesses may have grown six-fold, and the gross receipts of these businesses 50-fold over the past 2 decades. Most businesses owned by women, however are small, undercapitalized, situated in retailing and the services, and many enable only part-time work As a result, few women have...

Strickland and Burr at once proclaim the utility of generally employeeless and undercapitalized sole proprietorships for women having few work options and assert that enough of these small businesses grow big that the group as a whole benefits the national economy. They miscast the first...