The "women's quotas" among companies led by young people are (almost) a reality: 29% of businesses under 35 are in fact led by a woman. Altogether there are 154 young women at the head of a company in Italy, one out of every 12 women's companies. Campania and Lombardy compete for supremacy due to the presence of under-35 women's businesses, distancing Lazio and Sicily. But Umbria and Friuli Venezia Giulia are the regions that are at the top of the ranking for the rate of feminization of youth businesses.
These are some of the ideas that emerge from reading the data from the Unioncamere-InfoCamere Observatory for Female Entrepreneurship, released close to the start of the eleventh edition of the Tour of Italy of women who do business, the initiative organized by Unioncamere together with the Committees for Female Entrepreneurship of the Chambers of Commerce.
Round will leave on Monday from Macerata, to then touch Salerno (June 7), Siena (June 8), Trento (June 11), Foggia (June 18), Campobasso (June 19), Catanzaro (June 25), Perugia (June 26), Cosenza (June 28 ). Objective of the initiative: to inform, train and sensitize female and aspiring entrepreneurs about the specific problems of businesses led by women and the concrete opportunities offered by "starting up on one's own business".
Together with a greater presence in the business world of young people compared to "elderly" female colleagues (whose weight on the total number of businesses is close to 22%), the under 35s are also "invading" traditionally male sectors: financial and insurance activities, real estate, artistic, sporting and entertainment activities and professional, scientific and technical activities. All areas in which young female entrepreneurs account for almost a third of the total number of young enterprises, while total female enterprises represent more or less 20% of the total national production fabric.
If large metropolitan areas, Rome, Naples, Milan, Turin, Bari and Salerno obviously remain the land of choice for the diffusion of businesses also of the under 35s, some smaller provinces, such as Livorno, Pordenone, Grosseto, Frosinone, La Spezia, Viterbo, Chieti, Prato, Benevento, Latina, Syracuse, Terni, Rovigo register a presence of young female entrepreneurs well above the national average, between 34 and 32%.
Another component that is renewing the face of women's businesses in Italy is the foreign one. Over 141 female entrepreneurs with foreign passports at the end of last March, almost 24% of the 590 Italian businesses created by citizens from other countries. Lombardy, Lazio and Tuscany are the regions in which foreign women-owned enterprises are most common with Molise in first place in the ranking for the rate of feminisation of foreign enterprises. Rome, Milan, Turin and Florence are the provinces where they are most present. Enna, Benevento, Potenza and Prato, on the other hand, are those in which their incidence is greater than the total number of businesses managed by non-Italian citizens.
