It's raining women — entrepreneurs, that is.

Across America, the number of women-owned businesses is multiplying at a faster rate than the number of businesses owned by men, according to new research.

Over the past 15 years, when the number of businesses in the U.S. increased by 34 percent, the number of women-owned companies jumped by 50 percent — a rate 1.5 times the national average, a recent report commissioned by American Express OPEN found. Nationally, there are now 8.3 million women who own their own firms.

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