Afro-Caribbean women entrepreneurs: barriers to self-employment in Toronto: access to start-up capital is a major hurdle for all would-be entrepreneurs

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Title:	Afro-Caribbean women entrepreneurs: barriers to self-employment in Toronto: access to start-up capital is a major hurdle for all would-be entrepreneurs
Source:	Canadian Woman Studies , v.15(1) Winter, 1994 pg 38-41
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Year:	1994
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Keywords:	anti-discrimination, Canada, disability, economic, social, and cultural rights, employment, gender equality, human rights, non-discrimination, woman, ethnic minorities, civil and political rights, African-Caribbean African-Caribbean, minority rights
Abstract:	What are the barriers to self-employment for Afro-Caribbean women in Toronto? This question arose from my work as a trainer/consultant in the Small Business Training Program at the YMCA Enterprise Centre. The mandate of this federally-funded program is to provide training, consultancy, and support services to disadvantaged people who want to start their own business. This group includes those receiving social assistance, women, ethnic minorities, Natives, and people with disabilities. The mission of the YMCA Enterprise Centre was “self-sufficiency through self-employment.” This study was undertaken in order to identify the factors which prevented 84 per cent of the participants from pursuing their entrepreneurial dream after attending the program. While the participants represented a range of ethnic backgrounds and an even complement of females and males, it was immediately noted that young white men were the most likely to succeed. The next most likely to succeed were white females, then visible minority males. Visible minority females had the lowest success rate.
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