Start ‘em young

October 20th, 2006

Women’s eNews ran a nice story this week on how teenage girls are trying their hand at entrepreneurship more and more, thanks to programs like the Illinois Entrepreneurship Network’s Camp CEO, a business-training program for high school students.

I especially enjoyed this statistic from the article:

More than 6 in 10 female teens who responded to an online survey earlier this year sponsored by Junior Achievement Worldwide–a nonprofit based in Colorado Springs, Colo., that educates teens on economics and business–said they want to be self-employed at some point in their lives.

And this quote:

Nancy Moran, who started an outreach committee at the National Association of Women Business Owners in McLean, Va., to inform and inspire young women about entrepreneurship, is pleased to see more young women thinking like self-starters. “Too many young people, particularly young women, think they need to go into traditional ‘female’ jobs or go into the corporate world,” she said.

All I can say is, I wish I’d gone to a “camp” like that instead of the masochistic all-girls sleepaway camp that my parents shipped me off to each summer, where spoiled, vapid wanna-be debutantes routinely kicked each other in the head for sport. Good times.

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