"The number of female business owners in Asia is still trailing levels seen amongst their male counterparts and below the global average," says a new research report from Barclays Wealth and Investment Management.
This, it says, is despite Asia having a higher proportion of entrepreneurs (47 per cent) compared to the US (29 per cent) and Europe (30 per cent).
This new report finds that 39 per cent of high net worth women in Asia classify themselves as business owners, which is far below the 50 per cent of high net worth men in Asia.
Globally, 44 per cent of HNW women and 49 per cent of HNW men classify themselves as business owners.
It also shows that the gender pay gap is wider for non-entrepreneurs compared to entrepreneurs.
Non-entrepreneur women earn significantly more than non-entrepreneur men, while male entrepreneurs make slightly more than their female counterparts, it shows.
However, this trend is reverse globally, where among the high net worth female entrepreneurs earn 14 per cent more than their male counterparts.
In contrast, the average income of a high net worth woman who does not own her own business is 21
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