Half of U.S. businesses are based in homes, and more than half of those are women-owned, according to new figures from the U.S. Census Bureau. Operators of many of those home businesses work less than 20 hours a week.
Of an estimated 10.4 million privately held women-owned firms in the United States, according to industry experts, 85 percent are traditional or home-based businesses run by mothers.
The numbers are growing, agreed Jennifer Fraone, a marketing associate with the Boston College Center for Work & Family.
