B
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57% -- share of female led businesses started in last five years for Australian female-led small businesses (2025)
57% of female-led Australian small businesses (0-9 employees) were started in the last five years.
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Value
57%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
Entity
Sample Size
300,000
Geography
AU
Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
95
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
GoDaddy
Primary
Tier A
https://martechasia.net/pr-newswire/female-founders-drive-australias-small-business-growth-new-godad… ↗
Source Article
Female founders drive Australia's small business growth, new GoDaddy data shows ahead of International Women's Day | MartechAsia
- Ahead of International Women’s Day (8th March 2025), GoDaddy has revealed new data which highlights the impact of female founders on Australia’s small business economy
- Over two fifths (44%) of small businesses with 0-9 employees in Australia are run by women, and over one in four female founders…
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GoDaddy
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Methodology
GoDaddy Venture Forward research initiative
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Segmentation
Industrymarketing_tech
Company SizeSMB
RegionAU
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Australian female-led small businesses: 57% share of female led businesses started in last five years. Source: GoDaddy (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/female-led-businesses-started-last-five-years-2025
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