Jessica Alba, Arianna Huffington and Oprah Winfrey may be some of the most visible female entrepreneurs, but they aren’t the only ones worth celebrating this Women’s History Month. Over the past eight years, 38 percent of net new firms created in the U.S. economy have been owned by women, according to a report published by American Express OPEN and research/consultancy group Womenable. As of 2015, there were an estimated 9.4 million women-owned businesses in the United States, the report found, and those companies employed about 7.9 million people and generated nearly $1.5 trillion in revenues.

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