Business Coffee Break: What Role Do Women Entrepreneurs Play in the Economy?

FROM BACK...

This project emerged as an idea for practicing English in a comfortable, ralaxing and easy way, taking in count the difficulties that English learners have trying to get envolved with it in a Spanish context, and as our field is management and business, what better than talks about the most important economic topics aside the best friend a colombian can have: a cup of coffee.

This way, the first Business Coffee break was organized on febreury 17th with the presence of the organizers: Lilia Mendoza, Delanis Caicedo, Cristina Perez y Carlos Rebolledo.

About BCB

Around the world, there are an estimated 1 Billion people learning English. There are many reasons why learning English has seen exponential growth in recent years, but it all boils down to the fact that English is the “global language” of business, politics, international relations, culture, and entertainment. Because of this, students and teachers from faculty of management, economic and accounting sciences decided to share knowledge and experiences of the most important business topics in this foreign language, just with a cup of coffee...

What Role Do Women Entrepreneurs Play in the Economy?

19:07 / Publicado por Dela Caicedo /

Women owned 6.5 million businesses that generated $950.6 billion in revenues, employed 7.2 million workers, and had $179.6 billion in payroll in 2002.

In addition, another 2.7 million firms are owned equally by both women and men; these firms add another $731.1 billion in revenues and employ another 5.7 million workers.