According to the study carried out by Unioncamere – the Italian organization that unites the chambers of commerce, agriculture and industry – the quantity of Italian companies managed by women is stably growing. In September 2016 the number of female-led businesses outreached 1,3 million which is 21.74% of all the registered companies in Italy.
At the moment the most female-led companies can be found in the service sector where about 870000 the businesses are managed by women. Agriculture or, more precisely, forestry and fishery arrives on the second place: in this sector there are about 218000 female-led companies.
Source: http://www.italiangoodnews.com/
