The Rise of Female Entrepreneurs: How Women are Shattering Glass Ceilings in Business
Written by: Morgan Elliott
Even though men still dominate the majority of the business world, women are slowly changing the business landscape. It took a long time, but in the last couple of decades, women have decided to take the reigns of the business world into their own hands.
Despite all the challenges, today, we have more and more women starting their businesses for different reasons. It’s still quite challenging to succeed in a male-dominated business world, but ladies are overcoming obstacles and shattering the glass ceilings in the business world.
If you are a woman who wants to brave the ruthless, male-dominated business world, you will need some direction. That’s why we decided to give you some pointers and empower you to try and make your own way in the business world.
How women are shattering glass ceilings in business?
There is no such thing as a recipe for being a successful female entrepreneur. However, we noticed that most female entrepreneurs have certain qualities and traits that make them good leaders.
Those include passion, creativity, integrity, resilience, persistence, intuition, boldness, and communication.
Being passionate about your business
Passion for what you do is what usually moves you the most. So, don’t be afraid to show that passion to the world. It’s precisely that passion that will attract your clients and customers the most.
Passion for your work is highly important because it will help you feel motivated and intensify your focus. Being passionate about your business will also help you motivate others.
Passion will increase the desire to excel in your business; it will help you feel less stressed and more energized. With passion on your side, working more won’t be a burden.
Creativity
Passion drives creativity. If you’re passionate about your job, you’ll be creative. And to a creative woman, coming up with a perfect startup business idea won’t be a problem.
If you’re passionate about fashion, you should choose a niche where you can express your creativity through your clothing designs. Ready-made or custom clothing is the ideal niche for you. You can design custom clothing such as custom teamwear, custom headwear, custom swimwear, or whatever else comes to your mind.
The key is to be creative and feed that creativity. Creativity and imagination are, without doubt two of the most important ingredients for a successful business.
Resilience and persistence
Entrepreneurship is, without any doubt, more challenging for women than men. Women have to work a lot more to prove themselves, and they also have other responsibilities that men don’t.
For a woman to make her own way in the business world, she needs a lot more resilience and persistence. Giving up is easy, but if you want to make it in the business world, you’ll need to work hard, persist, and never back down from a challenge.
Integrity
Integrity means being honest and adhering to strong moral and ethical principles and values. These days, integrity is a quality very few businesspeople have. But integrity is vital for someone who claims to be a good leader.
As a woman in business, you need to be transparent, honest, and open with your employees, partners, and customers.
People will follow an ethical and trustworthy person. Integrity will also help you create trust and a company culture people will want to be part of.
Boldness
In addition to integrity, businesswomen also need to be bold. For a woman, being bold is crucial in the world of business.
It may be a cliche often seen in movies, but businesswomen are perceived as cold and strict for a reason. Since it’s much more difficult for women to be taken seriously, they create bold personas for when they are at work. So, don’t be afraid to be yourself, and at the same time, be bold regardless of what others think.
Communication skills and networking
Being communicative in the business world is a good trait. Thankfully, women are good both at communication and listening – two of the important traits in a leader.
Unlike men who struggle with this side of the business, women are great at reading body language and emotions. This is what makes women such great leaders.
Similarly, forming connections and networking are highly important in business. So, if you want to be a successful female entrepreneur, consider interacting with other successful women from your industry and others. This will help you build knowledge, grow and make future goals.
Intuition
Just like the above-mentioned traits, women are also good at trusting and following their intuition. This means that if your goal is to become a successful female entrepreneur, you’ll need to find ways to tap into your intuition.
Every strong female leader has gotten where they are thanks to that inner voice guiding them through the tough business landscape.
Adaptability
Adaptability is yet another important quality most female entrepreneurs possess. Every industry, especially the fashion industry we mentioned above, is constantly changing and evolving.
That’s why being flexible and adaptable is a good trait to have in business. Adaptability will help you predict changes in your customers, industry, market, and business world.
Conclusion
Making it big in the business world has never been easy. And for women, challenges are neverending. Still, this shouldn’t stop you from trying to create a career as a female entrepreneur.
The key is to work on honing all the above-mentioned qualities. Be consistent, never give up, and know you’re not the only one!