WOMEN AND FINANCING

Women who own businesses struggle more with getting financing than small company owners in general, according to a survey by researchers at Pepperdine University's Graziadio School of Business and Management and Dun & Bradstreet Corp.

Thirty-seven percent of the 364 women-owned businesses surveyed in October said they had sought financing during the previous three months, compared to 29 percent of all the nearly 1,600 small businesses surveyed. Just over a quarter of the women-owned businesses got bank loans, compared to 37 percent of all small companies.

The survey indicat...