Analyzing Information on Women-Owned Small Businesses in Federal Contracting (2005) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
1 Introduction
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The Small Business Act of 1953 established the Small Business Administration (SBA) as an independent agency in the executive branch, and subsequent legislation extended the SBA's counsel and assistance to specific types of small businesses, including firms owned by minorities and other socially and economically disadvantaged individuals and firms owned by women.
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Discussion topics for the workshop were to include the accuracy, soundness, and reliability of data and analytical methods to ascertain the use of women-owned small businesses in federal contracting; the definition of "underrepresentation" and "substantial underrepresentation" in the SBA draft report; appropriate regression methods (and other methods if necessary) to investigate correlates of gender disparities; the potential usefulness of additional variables in the analysis (e.g., firm size)
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Chapter 6 presents the committee's major conclusion regarding the SBA preliminary study and recommendations for revised disparity ratio estimates, more useful reports on federal contracting, collection of data on subcontracting, and development of a research agenda for women-owned small businesses in federal contracting. Following a section of references, two appendixes provide additional background information.
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