UK needs more female entrepreneurs to grow the economy
I think more women are begining to start their own businesses as it is becoming more necessary for women to contribute to the household budget. Therefore a lot of women are looking for businesses they can start from home to fit around the kids etc. Certainly the business i am in has created many succesful business women
“It doesn't mean they can't get back onto the career ladder after a short absence, but after witnessing a friends wife who was a high flyer, and fully planned to continue the charge up the ladder post baby, her whole outlook has changed, and now is contemplating part time work. No idea of stats, but when that maternal instinct kicks in, I suspect any previous world conquering plans do get readdressed in quite a few women.” No lynching, but currently 1 in 5 UK women - that's 20% - will not have kids, ever. And of the remaining 80% of women, I think we'll find a lot of their kids haven't been born yet and a lot more will be grown up already - the number of women with care responsibility for babies or school-age children isn't as high as you think. So childrearing on its own doesn't account for the difference. I think another consideration is that the 29% figure for small businesses includes many of those women you are talking about. Women whose partners are the main breadwinners, who are running small part-time work-from-home businesses specifically because they have, say, 20 hours a week to spare and such a business can be made to fit around childcare commitments (or other restrictions) that make it impractical to forge ahead with a full-time high-flying corporate career. Voluntary NI contributions are currently VirtuallyMary |
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