The number of businesses owned by women is growing worldwide. And while many of these ventures — particularly those in developing countries — face hurdles that are unimaginable in the United States, they also experience some universal challenges. This is evident in the stories of female owners from countries as geographically, politically and socially diverse as Afghanistan and Mexico.

You can read about some of them on this excellent Web site — a collaboration between Knowledge@Wharton, the online journal of The Wharton School, and Goldman Sachs, which created the 10,000 Women Initiative to provide underserved women worldwide with business and management educations. The case studies, including one about four Mexican co-owners who are seeking a growth strategy for their toy business, are particularly interesting. In other pieces, an Indian business owner learns to stop micromanaging, and an Afghan entrepreneur uses customer feedback to fine-tune her product line.

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