I might have to disagree with you on the “large portion” part of your assertion, if you meant that it was a majority.
Another incentive for “female-owned businesses” is the government-based incentive - easy loans, grants, tax breaks, etc, for “minority-owned businesses”.
Easy to put your wife’s name on the family business and get all those perks, now, isn’t it?
These are the same people who list their Dog as a Security expense. I know the type.
A trip down any road in Westport CT will reveal the face of this dynamic. The new-age gift shops, “Angel Shops” and cutely-named trinket shops that have no customers - save other rich female business owners on the same street.
Like celebrities, they make the daily rounds to stroke each other’s psychological g-spots.
Many men put the business in the wife’s name just for such breaks/perks. She’s there in name only.