How many women build high-growth companies of this caliber? To date, there have not been comprehensive studies that isolate the ―true high-growth/high-impact‖ bracket with statistical rigor and allow for gender comparisons. But, in a sense, statistical studies are not really needed here. So few women are operating at the highest levels of entrepreneurship that one can get a feeling for how scarce they are by the informal exercise of sitting down and trying to name them. A list of America’s high-impact women entrepreneurs would usually begin with the widely known names in entertainment and news media: Oprah Winfrey,.