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The CEO of Business in the Community will lead the refreshed Women’s Business Council as it takes evidence-based, data-driven action to empower women at work.
Inspirational women from across the country were invited to Downing Street last week to celebrate International Women’s Day 2024.
The purpose of the taskforce is to increase the number of women-led high-growth businesses, with a particular focus on regions outside of London.
The British Embassy delivered an activity with UN Women with the objective to share the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) in Guatemala.
Working paper and research report on a Market-Level Randomised Experiment in Kenya
Proportion of women-led businesses seeking finance in 2015.
Report published by the independent Women's Business Council looking into how women's full economic potential can be realised.
This study employs a qualitative study of 90 women engaged in primarily informal entrepreneurial activities in 3 Nepalese regions
Impact of COVID-19 School Closure Policies on Global Gender Gaps in Business Outcomes
Sets out the key findings from the 2010 small business survey (SBS) on women-led small and medium-sized enterprises.
Ways in which customary laws and practices can impact on women as owners and managers of enterprises and as employees
This study promoted the expansion of mobile savings accounts among women micro-entrepreneurs and provided business related training
This Women's Business Council report outlines a new look Council and new strategies for changing business culture.
Estimates the proportion of all businesses that are led by women, members of a minority ethnic group or are defined as a social enterprise.
Findings and recommendations of the women-led high-growth enterprise taskforce. The taskforce aims to increase the number of women-led high-growth businesses, particularly outside London.
Uses data from trials to show that the gender gap in microenterprise performance is not due to a gap in aptitude
This paper investigates global data on female and male enterprises operating in sectors that are typically dominated by the same and opposite sex
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