In a July 23, 2014, report entitled “21st Century Barriers to Women’s Entrepreneurship,” the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship found that while women-owned businesses are critical to our economy, “women entrepreneurs have not achieved their full potential — largely due to issues they have faced for more than three decades.” The report detailed those challenges in three specific areas: 1) access to capital, 2) access to federal contracting, and 3) access to business counseling. Earlier this year, Seattle law firm Perkins Coie launched a new initiative aimed at assisting women entrepreneurs in reaching their full potential by providing emerging companies that have at least one woman founder or one woman in a senior leadership role with greater access to critical business counseling. Click here to read the full article.