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Facts and Figures
Women’s enterprise contributes an estimated £60 billion annually to the gross value added to the UK economy.
(Government Economic Service).
Women are half as likely as men to be engaged in entrepreneurship at the early stages of start-up. That falls to just 28% of male entrepreneurship for established business.
(Global Entrepreneurship Monitor UK 2006).
Publicly funded enterprise training triples the likelihood of a woman starting a business.
(GEM UK 2006, Entrepreneurship Setting The Development Agenda).
Childcare costs have rise to one third of average earnings.
(Sixth Annual Childcare Survey, Daycare Trust).
Companies with 30% women in senior positions are more likely to have a culture where all women thrive.
(Inspiring women: Corporate best practice in Europe, the Lehman Brothers Centre for Women in Business, London Business School).
Female millionaires in Britain are predicted to outnumber male millionaires by 2020
(Barclays Wealth Insights, A question of Gender, Barclays Wealth).