Women are leading an economic revolution in the United States. The number of women owned businesses is growing 2x faster than the national average, but there is a pervasive and persistent challenge – just as there are gender gaps in leadership and in pay, there is a gender gap in lending. First Women’s Bank is forming to help bridge that gap.
On October 30th, we’ll hear from Marianne Markowitz, CEO of First Women’s Bank about the women’s economy, the disproportionate impact that the current health and social justice crises have had on women business owners and the Bank’s mission to grow the economy and advance the role of women within it from their single flagship location right here in Chicago.