If you think running a small business is hard enough now, try tossing a couple of kids into the mix - and imagine how much harder it gets.
That’s the daily reality for millions of home-based female business owners trying to strike a balance between work and family.
In fact, of the 3.6 million home-based businesses owned by women, 2.1 million are run with children at home, according to the Center for Women’s Business Research in Washington, D.C., based on the latest 2002 Economic Census data.
“The mom of today is part entrepreneur, part wife, part mother and part soccer coach,” says Linda Shapiro, co-founder and vice president of St. James-based Moms-for-Profit (moms-for-profit.com), an organization that assists entrepreneurial moms. “She’s really juggling everything and balancing her family at the same time.”
Many entrepreneurial moms start their own businesses out of financial necessity, while others do it to keep a foot in the business world - and maintain their sanity - in between The Wiggles and toddler tantrums.
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Dana Keith on May 14th, 2008 at 2:50 am
I admire moms who done these things, able to balance work and family..
It is really not an easy job to do.