{"id":2,"date":"2014-06-02T14:06:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T14:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.telfer.uottawa.ca\/womensenterprise\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2014-06-02T15:23:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T15:23:40","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.telfer.uottawa.ca\/womensenterprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Strategies to Support Canadian Women-owned Enterprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.telfer.uottawa.ca\/womensenterprise\/files\/2014\/06\/main.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.telfer.uottawa.ca\/womensenterprise\/files\/2014\/06\/main-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Business Women\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.telfer.uottawa.ca\/womensenterprise\/files\/2014\/06\/main-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.telfer.uottawa.ca\/womensenterprise\/files\/2014\/06\/main.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Women-owned businesses represent significant untapped potential to expand the Canadian economy.<\/p>\n<p>Today, women retain ownership in 47% of Canada\u2019s 1.6 million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and majority ownership in 16% of Canadian SMEs (Industry Canada, 2010).<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, over 900,000 of the 2.6 million self-employed workers in Canada were women (Statistics Canada, 2010).<\/p>\n<p>Women-owned businesses need immediate, active policy and program support to realize their full economic potential.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"well well-small\"><span class=\"label label-warning\">NEW!<\/span> Download the <em>Taskforce Roundtable Report. Action Strategies to Support Canadian Women-owned Enterprises<\/em> <strong>(<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.telfer.uottawa.ca\/womensenterprise\/files\/2014\/06\/taskforce-report-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Download PDF FILE<\/a>)<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Download <em>Blueprint for Economic Growth.<\/em> <strong>(<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.telfer.uottawa.ca\/womensenterprise\/files\/2014\/06\/Blueprint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Download PDF FILE<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women-owned businesses represent significant untapped potential to expand the Canadian economy. Today, women retain ownership in 47% of Canada\u2019s 1.6 million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and majority ownership in 16% of Canadian SMEs (Industry Canada, 2010). In 2010, over 900,000 of the 2.6 million self-employed workers in Canada were women (Statistics Canada, 2010). Women-owned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.telfer.uottawa.ca\/womensenterprise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.telfer.uottawa.ca\/womensenterprise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.telfer.uottawa.ca\/womensenterprise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.telfer.uottawa.ca\/womensenterprise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.telfer.uottawa.ca\/womensenterprise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.telfer.uottawa.ca\/womensenterprise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/sites.telfer.uottawa.ca\/womensenterprise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.telfer.uottawa.ca\/womensenterprise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}