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Women’s Enterprise News
2024
‘Manifesto for Accelerating Action’ launched as gender gap in enterprise widens
Here are five ways the next UK government could support female entrepreneurs
Here are five ways the next UK government could support female entrepreneurs (scotsman.com)
Women’s enterprise Scotland calls for urgent end to structural discrimination faced by female led businesses
2023
Female founders seek remedies to lack of backers
Amid higher inflation and macroeconomic uncertainty, women continue to set up and expand businesses. Yet female founders’ share of funds from backers remains stubbornly low.
Why are female founders only getting 6% of VC funding?
Despite there being more female founders than ever before, but according to the British Bank, for every £1 of equity investment in the UK in 2021, all-female-founder teams received just 2p.
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The gender funding gap: small strides to equality, but are investors doing enough?
2022
GEM New Research Highlights Women’s Entrepreneurship Trends Across The Globe
The report highlights the gender composition of startups, pandemic impacts on male and female entrepreneurs and structural and environmental inequalities that need to be addressed on a policy level.
Women entrepreneurs create record number of new UK companies in 2022, finds Rose Review
An article by the Pioneer Post reports on research led by Alison Rose of NatWest celebrating the entrepreneurialism and resilience of women founders.
Rose Review reports third year of progress
The Rose Review originally highlighted that if women started and scaled new businesses at the same rate as men, up to £250bn of new value could be added to the UK economy. Today’s Progress Report outlines progress made against targets and initiatives but cautions that there is still more to do.
2020/2021
The pandemic has widened the funding gap for women entrepreneurs, new report finds
A new study for Women’s Entrepreneurship Day 2020 shows that Covid has created a more challenging environment for female-led start-ups.
Entrepreneurship “in jeopardy” after hitting new high pre-Covid
Professor Mark Hart of Aston Business School said the exclusion of three million people from Government support schemes since March was “chipping away at the foundations of our enterprise economy.”
Social enterprises can change entire industries. This is how
The global economy needs to undergo a broad and far-reaching sustainability transition to overcome the social and environmental challenges mankind is facing.
Future Fund Publishes Diversity Data of Companies Receiving Convertible Loan Agreements
The Resolution Foundation estimates that over one-third of Britain’s five million self-employed people may have to stop working either because they work in sectors most heavily affected by social distancing, or in order to care for children who would have otherwise been at school.
Action Needed to Help Women’s Enterprise and Avoid Economic Catastrophe
Women need immediate action to prevent a “catastrophic” social and economic end to the year as they face bearing the brunt of job losses and business closures, it’s been claimed.
Gender pay gap at its widest among women in their 50s
The analysis, which was conducted by Rest Less – a career and advice website for the over-50s – examined data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and revealed that women’s salaries in this age bracket are 28 per cent, or £12,509, lower than men’s.