Immigrant women comprised 22.7% of the self-employed population and their growth rate was 42.6% between 1991 and 1996 compared to 44.3% for women entrepreneurs in general (Adrien et al., Today, one in five self-employed women was not born in Canada and the pace of business creation among immigrant women has outpaced that of immigrant men by 30% over the past decade (CIBC, 2005). Canadian research states that on average, immigrant women tend to be younger and more educated than the Canadian population in general and immigrant men in particular (Adrien et al., One-third of the women between the ages of 25 and 44 who have arrived in Canada in the past decade are university graduates (CIBC, 2005).