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other service fees, revenue sharing, or
other arrangements.
For the Commission, by the Division of
Investment Management, under delegated
authority.
Brent J. Fields,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015–02992 Filed 2–12–15; 8:45 am]
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION
[Release No. 34–74239; File No. S7–02–15]

Contract Standard for Contractor
Workforce Inclusion and Request for
Public Comment
Securities and Exchange
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of proposed contract
standard; notice of proposed
information collection; and request for
public comment.
AGENCY:

To implement section 342 of
the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and
Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (the
‘‘Dodd-Frank Act’’ or ‘‘the Act’’), the
Securities and Exchange Commission
(the ‘‘Commission’’) is proposing to
include in its service contracts a
standard concerning workforce
inclusion of minorities and women.
DATES: Comments should be received on
or before: April 14, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be
submitted by any of the following
methods:
SUMMARY:

Electronic Comments
• Use the Commission’s Internet
comment form (http://www.sec.gov/
rules/other.shtml);
• Send an email to [email protected]. Please include File
No. S7–02–15 on the subject line; or
• Use the Federal eRulemaking Portal
(http://www.regulations.gov). Follow
instructions for submitting comments.

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Paper Comments
• Send paper comments to Brent J.
Fields, Secretary, Securities and
Exchange Commission, 100 F Street NE.,
Washington, DC 20549–1090.
All submissions should refer to File No.
S7–02–15. This file number should be
included on the subject line if email is
used. To help us process and review
your comments more efficiently, please
use only one method. The Commission
will post all comments on the
Commission’s Internet Web site (http://
www.sec.gov/rules/other.shtml).
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Commission’s Public Reference Room,
100 F Street NE., Washington, DC 20549
on official business days between the
hours of 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. All
comments received will be posted
without change; we do not edit personal
identifying information from
submissions. You should submit only
information that you wish to make
available publicly.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Pamela A. Gibbs, Director, Office of
Minority and Women Inclusion, or
Audrey B. Little, Senior Counsel, Office
of Minority and Women Inclusion at
(202) 551–6046, Securities and
Exchange Commission, 100 F Street NE.,
Washington, DC 20549.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
342(a)(1)(A) of the Dodd-Frank Act
provides for certain agencies, including
the Securities and Exchange
Commission, to establish an Office of
Minority and Women Inclusion
(‘‘OMWI’’).1 Section 342(c)(1) provides
that the OMWI Director shall develop
and implement standards and
procedures to ensure the fair inclusion
and utilization of minorities, women,
and minority-owned and women-owned
businesses in all business and activities
of the agency, including in
procurement, insurance, and all types of
contracts. Section 342(c)(2) requires that
the OMWI Director include in the
procedures for evaluating contract
proposals and hiring service providers a
component that gives consideration to
the diversity of an applicant, to the
extent consistent with applicable laws.
In addition, section 342(c)(2) requires
that such procedures include a written
statement, in the form and content
prescribed by the OMWI Director, that
a contractor shall ensure, to the
maximum extent possible, the fair
inclusion of women and minorities in
the workforce of the contractor and, as
applicable, subcontractors.
Further, section 342(c)(3)(A) requires
the OMWI Director to establish
standards and procedures for
determining whether an agency
contractor or subcontractor ‘‘has failed
to make a good faith effort to include
minorities and women’’ in its
workforce. Section 342(c)(3)(B)(i)
provides that if the OMWI Director
determines that a contractor has failed
to make good faith efforts, the Director
shall recommend to the agency
administrator that the contract be
terminated. Upon receipt of such a
recommendation, section 342(c)(3)(B)(ii)
provides that the agency administrator
may terminate the contract, make a
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referral to the Office of Federal Contract
Compliance Programs of the Department
of Labor, or take other appropriate
action.
Under section 342(c)(3)(A) of the
Dodd-Frank Act, the OMWI Director is
required to determine whether a
contractor or subcontractor has made
good faith efforts to include minorities
and women in its workforce. The
proposed Contract Standard would
require that a Commission contractor,
upon request from the OMWI Director,
provide documentation of the actions
undertaken (and as applicable, the
actions each covered subcontractor
under the contract has undertaken) that
demonstrate its good faith efforts to
ensure the fair inclusion of minorities
and women in its workforce. The
documentation requested may include,
but is not limited to: (1) The total
number of employees in the contractor’s
workforce, and the number of
employees by race, ethnicity, gender,
and job title or EEO–1 job category (e.g.,
EEO–1 Report(s)); (2) a list of covered
subcontract awards under the contract
that includes the dollar amount of each
subcontract, date of award, and the
subcontractor’s race, ethnicity, and/or
gender ownership status; (3) the
contractor’s plan to ensure the fair
inclusion of minorities and women in
its workforce, including outreach
efforts; and (4) for each covered
subcontractor, the information
requested in items 1 and 3 above. The
OMWI Director will consider the
information submitted in evaluating
whether the contractor or subcontractor
has complied with its contractual
obligation to make good faith efforts to
ensure the fair inclusion of minorities
and women in its workforce.
The Commission’s proposes to satisfy
section 342(c)(2) through the inclusion
of a contract standard concerning
workforce inclusion of minorities and
women (the ‘‘Contract Standard’’) in
solicitations and resulting contracts for
services with a dollar value of $100,000
or more. The proposed Contract
Standard is similar to the contract
clauses adopted by OMWIs of other
federal financial regulatory agencies.2
The Contract Standard requires the
service contractor, upon entering into a
contract with the Commission, to
confirm that it will ensure, to the
maximum extent possible and
consistent with applicable law, the fair
inclusion of minorities and women in
its workforce. In addition, the proposed
2 See Department of the Treasury Acquisition
Regulations; Contract Clause on Minority and
Women Inclusion in Contractor Workforce, 79 FR
15551, at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-201403-20/pdf/2014-05846.pdf.

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Contract Standard requires the
contractor to include the substance of
the Contract Standard in all
subcontracts for services awarded under
the contract with a dollar value of
$100,000 or more. Accordingly, the
requirements of the proposed Contract
Standard will apply to covered
subcontractors, as prescribed in section
342(c)(2) of the Dodd-Frank Act.
The proposed Contract Standard
requires a contractor to provide
documentation, upon the request of the
OMWI Director, to demonstrate that it
has made good faith efforts to ensure the
fair inclusion of minorities and women
in its workforce and, as applicable, to
demonstrate that its covered
subcontractors have made such good
faith efforts. ‘‘Good faith efforts’’ are
interpreted to include actions by a
contractor (and, as applicable, actions
by each covered subcontractor) to
ensure the fair inclusion of women and
minorities in its workforce, while at the
same time identifying, and if present,
removing barriers to minority and
women employment or expansion of
employment opportunities for
minorities and women within its
workforce. Efforts to remove such
barriers may include, but are not limited
to, recruiting to ensure that applicant
pools include minorities and women,
providing job-related training, or other
activity that could lead to removing
such barriers.
Section 342 of the Dodd-Frank Act
applies to ‘‘all contracts of [the
Commission] for services of any kind,’’
but the section does not define the term
‘‘contract.’’ FAR 37.101 defines ‘‘service
contract’’ as a ‘‘contract that directly
engages the time and effort of a
contractor whose primary purpose is to
perform an identifiable task rather than
to furnish an end item of supply.’’
Pursuant to the FAR definition, this
proposed Contract Standard will be
included in all Commission solicitations
and resulting contracts for services with
a dollar value of $100,000 or more, and
in all subcontracts under the related
prime contract for services with a dollar
value of $100,000 or more.
Public Comment
The proposed Contract Standard is
being published for public comment
pursuant to 41 U.S.C. 1707, which
applies to the publication of a covered
federal procurement policy, regulation,
procedure or form. Section 1707
provides that a procurement policy,
regulation, procedure or form (including
an amendment or modification thereof)
is to be published for public comment
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has either a significant effect beyond the
internal operating procedures of the
agency issuing the policy, regulation,
procedure or form, or has a significant
cost or administrative impact on
contractors or offerors.
Here, the proposed Contract Standard
relates to the expenditure of
appropriated funds of the Commission,
because it will be incorporated in
certain Commission service contracts
paid for with appropriated funds. The
Contract Standard may have a
significant effect beyond the internal
operating procedures of the agency, as it
implements requirements of the DoddFrank Act designed to address minority
and women inclusion by federal
contractors and implements the new
contract termination authority
contained in section 342(c)(3). The
proposed Contract Standard may also
have a cost or administrative impact on
contractors or offerors, but we believe
these effects would be insignificant as a
result of the overlap with existing EEO
laws. The consequence for noncompliance could have a cost or
administrative impact on the covered
service contractors, although they again
overlap with existing remedies.
Paperwork Reduction Act
The proposed Contract Standard
contains ‘‘collection of information’’
requirements within the meaning of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(‘‘PRA’’).3 The title for the proposed
collection of information is:
• Contract Standard for Contractor
Workforce Inclusion.
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number. We intend to submit
these requirements to the Office of
Management and Budget (‘‘OMB’’) for
review and approval in accordance with
the PRA and its implementing
regulations.4 If approved, the responses
to the new collection of information
would be mandatory. For collections of
information not contained in a proposed
rule, the PRA requires federal agencies
to publish a notice in the Federal
Register concerning each proposed
collection of information and to allow
60 days for public comment.5 To
comply with this requirement, we are
publishing this notice.
3 44

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.
U.S.C. 3507(c); 5 CFR 1320.10.
5 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2).
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A. Overview of Information Collection
1. Description of the Need for the
Information and Proposed Use
Under section 342(c)(3)(A) of the
Dodd-Frank Act, the OMWI Director is
required to determine whether a
contractor or subcontractor has made
good faith efforts to include minorities
and women in its workforce. The
proposed Contract Standard would
require that a Commission contractor,
upon request from the OMWI Director,
provide documentation of the actions
undertaken (and as applicable, the
actions each covered subcontractor
under the contract has undertaken) that
demonstrate its good faith efforts to
ensure the fair inclusion of minorities
and women in its workforce. The
documentation requested may include,
but is not limited to: (1) The total
number of employees in the contractor’s
workforce, and the number of
employees by race, ethnicity, gender,
and job title or EEO–1 job category (e.g.,
EEO–1 Report(s)); (2) a list of covered
subcontract awards under the contract
that includes the dollar amount of each
subcontract, date of award, and the
subcontractor’s race, ethnicity, and/or
gender ownership status; (3) the
contractor’s plan to ensure the fair
inclusion of minorities and women in
its workforce, including outreach
efforts; and (4) for each covered
subcontractor, the information
requested in items 1 and 3 above. The
OMWI Director will consider the
information submitted in evaluating
whether the contractor or subcontractor
has complied with its contractual
obligation to make good faith efforts to
ensure the fair inclusion of minorities
and women in its workforce.
2. Respondents and Estimate of
Recordkeeping and Reporting Burdens
The proposed Contract Standard will
be included in Commission contracts
and subcontracts for services with a
dollar value of $100,000 or more. Based
on the data showing the dollar value of
service contracts and subcontracts
awarded in FY 2012 and FY 2013, we
estimate that 170 contractors 6 would be
subject to the proposed Contract
Standard. Approximately 120 of these
contractors have 50 or more employees,
while about 50 contractors have fewer
than 50 employees.
a. Recordkeeping Burden
The information collection under the
proposed Contract Standard would
6 Unless otherwise specified, the term
‘‘contractors’’ refers to contractors and
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impose no new recordkeeping burdens
on the estimated 120 contractors that
have 50 or more employees. Such
contractors are generally subject to
recordkeeping and reporting
requirements under the regulations
implementing Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act 7 and Executive Order 11246
(‘‘E.O. 11246’’).8 Their contracts and
subcontracts must include the clause
implementing E.O. 11246—FAR 52.222–
26, Equal Opportunity. In addition,
contractors that have 50 or more
employees (and a contract or
subcontract of $50,000 or more) are
required to maintain records on the
race, ethnicity, gender, and EEO–1 job
category of each employee under
Department of Labor regulations
implementing E.O. 11246.9 The
regulations implementing E.O. 11246
also require contractors that have 50 or
more employees (and a contract or
subcontract of $50,000 or more) to
demonstrate that they have made good
faith efforts to remove identified
barriers, expand employment
opportunities, and produce measurable
results,10 and to develop and maintain
a written program, which describes the
policies, practices, and procedures that
the contractor uses to ensure that
applicants and employees receive equal
opportunities for employment and
advancement.11 In lieu of developing a
separate workforce inclusion plan, a
contractor would be permitted to submit
its existing written program prescribed
by the E.O. 11246 regulations as part of
the documentation that demonstrates
the contractor’s good faith efforts to
ensure the fair inclusion of minorities
and women in its workforce. Thus,
approximately 120 contractors are
already required to maintain the
information that may be requested
under the proposed Contract Standard.
The estimated 50 contractors that
employ fewer than 50 employees are
required under the regulations
implementing E.O. 11246 to maintain
records showing the race, ethnicity and
gender of each employee. We believe
that these contractors also keep job title
information during the normal course of
business. However, contractors that
have fewer than 50 employees may not
have the written program prescribed by
the E.O. 11246 regulations or similar
plan that could be submitted as part of
the documentation to demonstrate their
good faith efforts to ensure the fair
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Order 11246, 30 FR 12,319 (Sept. 24,

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1965).
9 See 41 CFR 60–1.7.
10 See 41 CFR 60–2.17(c).
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inclusion of minorities and women in
their workforces. Accordingly,
contractors with fewer than 50
employees may have to create a plan to
ensure workforce inclusion of
minorities and women.
In order to estimate the burden on
contractors associated with creating a
workforce inclusion plan, we
considered the burden estimates for
developing the written programs
required under the regulations
implementing E.O. 11246.12 As there is
no regulatory blueprint for a workforce
inclusion plan, and contractors creating
a workforce inclusion plan are not
required to perform the same types of
analyses required for the written
programs prescribed by the E.O. 11246
regulations, we believe that to develop
a workforce inclusion plan contractors
with fewer than 50 employees would
require approximately a third of the
hours that contractors of similar size
spend on developing the written
programs required under the E.O. 11246
regulations. Accordingly, we estimate
that contractors would spend about 24
hours of employee resources to develop
a workforce inclusion plan. This would
be a one-time total burden of 1,200
hours. After the initial development, we
estimate that each contractor with fewer
than 50 employees would spend
approximately 10 hours each year
updating and maintaining its workforce
inclusion plan for a total annual burden
of 500 hours. To account for this
expected diminishing burden, we use a
three-year average of the expected
burden during the first year with the
expected ongoing burden during the
next two years to estimate the annual
recordkeeping burden on contractors
with fewer than 50 employees. Thus, we
estimate that the total annual
recordkeeping burden for such
contractors to be about 740 hours
[(1,200 + 500 + 500)/3 years, rounded
up].
The proposed contract standard also
would require contractors to maintain
information about covered
subcontractors’ ownership status,
12 According to the Supporting Statement for the
OFCCP Recordkeeping and Requirements-Supply
Service, OMB Control No. 1250–003 (‘‘Supporting
Statement’’), it takes approximately 73 burden
hours for contractors with 1–100 employees to
develop the initial written program required under
the regulations implementing E.O. 11246. We
understand the quantitative analyses prescribed by
the Executive Order regulations at 41 CFR part 60–
2 are a time-consuming aspect of the written
program development. As there is no requirement
to perform these types of quantitative analyses in
connection with a workforce inclusion plan under
the proposed Contract Standard, we believe the
workforce inclusion plan will take substantially
fewer hours to develop. The Supporting Statement
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workforce demographics, and workforce
inclusion plans. Contractors would
request this information from their
covered subcontractors, who would
have an obligation to keep workforce
demographic data and maintain
workforce inclusion plans because the
substance of the proposed Contract
Standard would be included in their
subcontracts. Based on data describing
recent Commission subcontractor
activity, we believe that very few
subcontractors will have subcontracts
under Commission service contracts
with a dollar value of $100,000 or
more.13 These subcontractors may
already be subject to similar
recordkeeping requirements as principal
contractors. Consequently, we believe
that any additional requirements
imposed on subcontractors would not
significantly add to the burden
estimates discussed above.
b. Reporting Burden
With respect to the reporting burden,
we estimate that it would take all
contractors on average approximately
one hour to retrieve and submit to the
OMWI Director the documentation
specified in the proposed Contract
Standard. We expect to request
documentation from up to 100
contractors each year and therefore we
estimate the total annual reporting
burden to be 100 hours.
B. Solicitation of Public Comment
We request comments on the
proposed collection of information in
order to: (a) Evaluate whether the
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the Commission,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) evaluate the
accuracy of the Commission’s estimate
of the burden (including hours and cost)
of the proposed collection of
information; (c) determine whether
there are ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (d) evaluate whether
there are ways to minimize the burden
of the collection of information on
respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Persons who desire to submit
comments on the collection of
information may use any of the methods
shown in the ADDRESSES section of this
notice. Comments should be received on
13 A search of subcontract awards on the
usaspending.gov Web site showed that four
subcontractors in FY 2012 and three subcontractors
in FY 2013 had subcontracts of $100K or more. See
data on subcontract awards available at http://
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or before: April 14, 2015. Comments
submitted in response to this notice will
be summarized and/or included in the
request for OMB approval of this
information collection; they also will
become a matter of public record.
Text of Proposed Contract Standard for
Contractor Workforce Inclusion
Note: The Text of this Proposed Contract
Standard will not appear in the Code of
Federal Regulations.

Contractor Workforce Inclusion
Authority: 12 U.S.C. 5452; Sec. 342, Pub.
L. 111–203.

Scope
The agency will include the
Contractor Workforce Inclusion contract
standard in all Commission solicitations
and resulting contracts for services with
a dollar value of $100,000 or more.
Contract Standard
The following contract standard shall
be included in all Commission
solicitations and resulting contracts for
services with a dollar value of $100,000
or more.

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Contractor Workforce Inclusion
The Contractor confirms its
commitment to equal opportunity in
employment and contracting, and that it
shall ensure, to the maximum extent
possible and consistent with applicable
law, the fair inclusion of minorities and
women in its workforce.
The Contractor shall insert the
substance of this contract standard in
each subcontract for services awarded
for performance of this contract with a
dollar value of $100,000 or more.
Within ten (10) business days of a
written request from the Director of the
Commission’s Office of Minority and
Women Inclusion (OMWI Director) or
designee, or such longer time as the
OMWI Director or designee determines,
and without any additional
consideration, action or authorization
required from the OMWI Director, the
Contractor shall provide documentation,
satisfactory to the OMWI Director, of the
actions it has undertaken (and as
applicable, the actions each covered
subcontractor under the contract has
undertaken) to demonstrate its good
faith efforts to comply with the
aforementioned provisions.
For purposes of this contract, ‘‘good
faith efforts’’ shall include actions by
the Contractor (and as applicable,
actions by each covered subcontractor
under the Service Contract) to identify
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expansion of employment opportunities
for minorities and women within its
workforce. Efforts to remove such
barriers may include, but are not limited
to, recruiting to ensure that applicant
pools include minorities and women,
providing job-related training, or other
activity that could lead to removing
such barriers.
The documentation requested by the
OMWI Director or designee to
demonstrate good faith efforts may
include, but is not limited to, one or
more of the following:
a. The total number of Contractor’s
employees, and the number of
employees by race, ethnicity, gender,
and job title or EEO–1 Report job
category (e.g., EEO–1 Report(s));
b. A list of covered subcontract
awards for services under the contract,
and for each covered subcontract award,
the dollar amount, date of award, and
the subcontractor’s race, ethnicity, and/
or gender ownership status;
c. The contractor’s plan for ensuring
the fair inclusion of minorities and
women in its workforce, including
outreach efforts; and
d. For each covered subcontractor, the
documentation specified in paragraphs
a. and c. above.
Consistent with Section 342(c)(3) of
the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and
Consumer Protection Act (the ‘‘DoddFrank Act’’), 12 U.S.C. 5452(c)(3), a
Contractor’s failure to demonstrate to
the OMWI Director that it has made
good faith efforts to include minorities
and women in its workforce (and as
applicable, failure to demonstrate that
its subcontractor(s) has made such good
faith efforts) may result in termination
of the contract for default after the
contractor is provided written notice
and an opportunity to cure the failure in
accordance with the procedures set
forth in FAR 49.402–3(d), other
contractual remedies, referral to the
Office of Federal Contract Compliance
Programs (OFCCP), or other appropriate
action.
Compliance with this standard does
not necessarily satisfy the requirements
of EO 11246, as amended, nor does it
preclude OFCCP compliance
evaluations and/or enforcement actions
undertaken pursuant to that Executive
Order, or demonstrate compliance with
other FAR clauses that may be included
in this contract.
For purposes of this contract
standard, the term ‘‘minority’’ shall
have the meaning set forth in section
342(g) of the Dodd-Frank Act.
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By the Commission.
Brent J. Fields,
Secretary.
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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements under OMB review
Small Business Administration.
30-Day notice.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

The Small Business
Administration (SBA) is publishing this
notice to comply with requirements of
the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35), which requires
agencies to submit proposed reporting
and recordkeeping requirements to
OMB for review and approval, and to
publish a notice in the Federal Register
notifying the public that the agency has
made such a submission. This notice
also allows an additional 30 days for
public comments.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
March 16, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to
the information collection by name and/
or OMB Control Number and should be
sent to: Agency Clearance Officer, Curtis
Rich, Small Business Administration,
409 3rd Street SW., 5th Floor,
Washington, DC 20416; and SBA Desk
Officer, Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, New
Executive Office Building, Washington,
DC 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Curtis Rich, Agency Clearance Officer,
(202) 205–7030 [email protected]
Copies: A copy of the Form OMB 83–
1, supporting statement, and other
documents submitted to OMB for
review may be obtained from the
Agency Clearance Officer.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
National Women’s Business Council
will examine women’s participation in
business incubation and acceleration
programs to understand the
characteristics of incubators and
acceleration that affect the business
outcomes of women business owners.
NWBC will also gain insight into factors
that affect women’s participation in
these programs. Respondents will be
managers of incubators and accelerators,
women owners who graduated from the
programs and a sample of women
business owners from the general
population.
SUMMARY:

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