I, a woman, ran an entrepreneurial business for 30 years without taking one thin dime from government other than a single contract with a municipal department that I earned from competing for it. There was no woman/minority documentation. I never joined any of those woman/minority set-aside programs and never let myself be characterized as a "woman business owner" or a "woman"-anything when I was frequently asked to give lectures. If I was going to do the work, I was going to do it well and compete straight on; and I did succeed.
See post 33.