In a study made public today, the Center for Women's Business Research revealed that in 2002 minority women will own over a third of all California businesses owned by women. This is well above the national average of twenty percent and reflects the fact that California has the largest total number of Hispanic, Asian and Pacific Islander female-owned firms of any state. The study predicts that the overall percentage of businesses owned by minority women nationwide will have grown by 6.8% from 1997 levels by the year 2002.
See "Minority Women's Businesses on Rise", KAREN ROBINSON-JACOBS, Los Angeles Times, December 17, 2001