The pandemic saw many women drop out of the workforce, but quite a few of them started their own businesses.
TechRepublic's Karen Roby spoke with Melanie Chase, CMO at Next Insurance, about women in the workforce after the COVID-19 pandemic. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation.
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Melanie Chase: At Next we are an InsureTech company that provides insurance to small businesses, and we do it fast, we do it affordably, we do it entirely online. And our mission is to help entrepreneurs thrive. Coming out of this pandemic period, we wanted to do a study on how small businesses were feeling, how they were thinking, what they needed in this post-pandemic world. We talked to 500 small business owners, and we had some really interesting findings. One of those findings that stood out was that women in our study were twice as likely to open small …