Using the NRC Recommendations and the RAND Study Tables, Eighty-Seven Percent of All Industries are Underrepresented
By following the scholarly recommendation detailed by the NRC, the SBA simply needed to use the RAND Study tables and, "identify industry groups for which more than one disparity measure finds underrepresentation using a disparity ratio of 0.80 or less." Using the NRC methodology to determine underrepresentation, women businesses are underrepresented in eighty-seven percent of all industries. These industries are shown below:
RAND Study Results
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Women Business Owners Blocked from Fair Access to Federal Contracts