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英国：女百万富翁激增！ Divorce makes women rich [ 2007-04-28 09:11 ] Divorce, inheritance and business noushas helped a growing number of women to become millionaires, who haveincreased at five times the rate of wealthy men. Wealth used to be a man's world, but the gap between the sexes isnarrowing when it comes to money, a new report shows.In Britain, the number of female millionaires has been rising on theback of social trends - such as inheritance and the rapidly climbingdivorce rate - and they now make up nearly half of all millionaires in theUK, according to independent market analyst Datamonitor.On top of that, a new generation of women have started to prosper intheir own right, and female entrepreneurs are increasingly growing innumber.While a male millionaire's wealth has increased by an average 9.2 percent over the past eight years, the worth of a female millionaire hasballooned by 53.9 per cent, Datamonitor found.The British study showed that in 1998, the average male millionaire wasworth ￡2.71 million (AUS$6.51m), while the female equivalent owned just￡1.28m.But by 2006, the gap had narrowed to ￡2.96m for male millionaires and￡1.97m for women.Women make up about 46 per cent of Britain's 376,000 millionaires - andtheir number is growing by almost 11 per cent a year.Some 3800 British women owned liquid assets of more than￡5m,Datamonitor said.The number of women of "high net worth" status (classified as thosewith onshore liquid assets of more than ￡200,000) overtook men in 2005 -with 448,100 rich women compared to 429,300 men.Nine of the world's fifty richest people are women.The richest self-made womanin the world is Rosalia Mera (61) of Spain, who is worth approximately$2.4 billion.She started off making gowns and lingerie in her home. Her businesseventually grew into the apparel manufacturer Inditex, which sold $6billion worth of clothes lastyear. | 
