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Women committed just six percent of the death or bodily harm offences in 2002 and just three percent of dangerous driving offences.

But female offences relating to driving with excess alcohol or drugs in the system increased -- up from nine percent of the total in 1998 to 11 percent in 2002.

Men were responsible for 96 percent of vehicle thefts and 97 percent of offences relating to motorcyles.

Overall, women's share of motoring offences rose only one percent between 1998 and 2002.

Companies Owned by Women Set the Pace in Small Business

By ELIZABETH OLSON

New York Times

April 28, 2004

Companies owned by women are growing at double the rate of all small businesses in the nation, spending $550 billion a year on payroll and benefits, according to figures released Tuesday by a research group.

This year, women own a 50 percent or larger stake in 10.6 million privately held companies, the Center for Women's Business Research said. This is almost 48 percent of the country's privately held businesses. Companies owned by women have $2.46 trillion in sales and employ just over 19 million people nationwide, according to the latest data from the center, which is based in Washington.

"We estimate that women-owned firms are growing at close to twice the rate of all privately held firms, 17 percent versus 9 percent," said

Myra M. Hart, a Harvard Business School professor and chairwoman of the center.