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Women entrepreneurs may increasingly be drawn to Tulsa.

In a Small Business Friendliness Survey conducted by Thumbtack, the San Francisco-based company ranked Tulsa as the best city in the country for women to start a business in 2016.

To calculate this ranking, Thumbtack surveyed female professionals and business owners from around the nation to determine the places where women are happiest running a business. The survey focused on sentiment, pay and state/city friendliness toward female-owned businesses.

In 2016, more than 12,000 U.S. small-business owners participated in the study, which graded 35 states and 78 cities on the government policies that affect their businesses.

Chris Bourne is a mentor with the Tulsa chapter of SCORE, a national nonprofit that provides free mentoring and education to at least 350,000 small-business owners annually.

He said women’s presence in his seminars has grown noticeably in the last few years.