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Business Sectors in the Netherlands:
Most women have their business in:
1. Retail trade (36%)
2. Catering + social services (35%)
3. Industry (23%)
4. Wholesale business (22%)
5. Transport (19%)
(% of total amount of enterprises in 2004)
(source, EIM, 2004)
Setting up new enterprises by women:
Choice of sector
- Women would have more knowledge and experience for jobs in services
- The education of women is concentrated on service sectors
- Women find it hard to acquire capital for capital-intensive sectors
- Women choose, for personal reasons like family care, for an enterprise in
the service industries
(source, EIM, Heleen Stigter, 1999)
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