Use PitchBook* to search for female founders and entrepreneurs. Click on the People tab on the left menu to get started:

• Set Gender = Female
• Select the Founder/founding Partner button
• You can also include criteria like Locations, Firm Types, or University/Institution affiliation, like University of Iowa.

*FIRST TIME USERS: please create an account using your University of Iowa email address (@uiowa.edu) and a password for your account.

Take a look at Women's Bureau from the US Department of Labor.

Go to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Women in the Labor Force: A Databook.

Use Bloomberg, available on select computers in the Business Library.  You can find data on the percentage of women in a U.S. public company's workforce.

• Type the company's ticker symbol then hit the yellow <EQUITY> key.
• Then, type FA ESGS and hit the green <GO> key.

Data Axle (PREVIOUSLY ReferenceUSA) allows screening for female executives.  Use Advanced Search filter Executive Gender.

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