A new accounting of the most supportive cities for growth-oriented women entrepreneurs was recently released at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, just ahead of the Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. The WE Cities Index lists the 25 cities globally that provide the most supportive capital, technology, talent, culture and markets for growth-oriented women, a population they refer to as “high potential women entrepreneurs.” Those cities are:
- New York City
- the San Francisco Bay Area
- London
- Stockholm
- Singapore
- Toronto
- Washington, DC
- Sydney
- Paris
- Seattle
- Munich
- Austin
- Beijing
- Hong Kong
- Taipei
- Shanghai
- Tokyo
- Mexico City
- São Paulo
- Seoul
- Milan
- Delhi
- Johannesburg
- Jakarta
- Istanbul
For an interactive look at how each of these cities ranks in the five major index areas, visit this web page.
The WE Cities Index follows on the heels of the Global Women Entrepreneurs Scorecard, which was released the prior year. That effort analyzed 21 variables in a five-element framework, and ranked 31 countries around the globe for their supportive policies and programs to help women scale their enterprises. The findings of the country-focused effort (which was supported in part from Womenable) were highlighted in this Womenable blogpost from 2015.
Tops on that list were the United States, Canada, Australia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom — home to nine of the 25 top-ranked global cities for women entrepreneurs who are shooting for the stars. Godspeed on your journey, ladies!