That's a great question.
Our organization has seen an increase in women turning to entrepreneurship. The national average is about 36% of self-employed Canadians are women. For Futurpreneur Canada, in the last five years an average of 40% of our clients or the young entrepreneurs we've funded have been women, and as I mentioned, in B.C., 44% are women. We see that our rate is slightly higher perhaps just because of the demographic. We serve 18 to 39-year-olds, and it's a lower financing amount. It's only up to $45,000, which seems to be a bit more accessible to women. Women tend not to access the larger dollar amounts, so therefore that may be why the numbers are a little bit different.
So the good news is that more young women are starting businesses.