The New Age of high-growth women entrepreneurs is about to transform economies across the globe and create millions of jobs.

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If that sounds like a grand statement, it is not, from listening to Sharon Vosmek. As CEO of Astia, the premier venture accelerator for women-led high growth companies, Vosmek is passionate that women entrepreneurs will create the next high-growth firms, and pull the global economy out of the doldrums. Literally.

Vosmek points to the data. It is underpinning Vosmek’s crusade to take women-led high-growth entrepreneurship global and to next scale. It is compelling. Data shows that if women CEOs had the same access to capital as male CEOs, six million jobs would be added to the economy in five years; two million in year one alone.

For Vosmek, the case is clear-cut.

Women make up over half the planet.

Women make up 50 per cent of all new MBA graduates.

Women make up just under 50 per cent of all PhDs.

Women make up 48 per cent of all entrepreneurs globally.http://blogs.forbes.com/worldviews/