There’s an age-old fact that women entrepreneurs face a harder time growing their business than male counterparts due to several societal, systemic and financial barriers.

There’s no doubt that these barriers still exist, but the last few years have seen a shift. According to research from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, the extent of women’s entrepreneurship activities — particularly over the last few crisis-prone years — has been rapidly evolving and diversifying despite all odds.

In fact, their research shows that one in three high-growth, innovation-oriented entrepreneurs are women.

Technology, in part, is helping to flip the narrative. Notable challenges such as access to capital and networks, lack of quality training and education, overcoming gender stereotypes and so on, are all being dismantled as more women leverage the power of technology to grow and scale.

To better understand how women are breaking through existing barriers to success, we chatted with alumna from the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women™ program who have not only designed, built and developed successful companies by embracing technology — but have also pursued purpose well beyond profits to create a better working world for women following in their footsteps.

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