US plans to promote women-run vendors
March 17, 2010
News from across the pond that the US govenrment wants to boost contract opportunities for women-owned firms.
This is due to the fact that the Small Business Administration has identified 83 industies where firms owned or run by women are “substantially under-represented”.
Whilst I am all for promoting women owned businesses I am totally against this being on the basis of positive discrimination. Many women run their business equally as efficiently and effectively (if not better) as a man. I want us to win business through our own tenacity, hard work and competitiveness not just because we are ‘under-represented’.
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