60% of Kazakhstan's entrepreneurs are women
16:36, 23 May 2014
ASTANA. KAZINFORM "The share of women among individual entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan reaches 60%," head of the National Commission for Women Affairs and Family-Demographic Policy under the Kazakh President Makhabbat Bekbosynov told at today's international conference themed "Development of regional cooperation of women-entrepreneurs of Central Asia and Afghanistan".
"The share of women involved in Kazakhstan-based small and medium business is about 50%, while 60% of individual entrepreneurs fall on women. Last year every third microcredit was granted to a woman for doing own business," she added.