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Europe needs more businesswomen

Posted on 06/11/2009

Entrepreneurs are the people who have the creative ideas, drive and determination to set up new small businesses: the seeds from which big enterprises can blossom. However, women currently make up only a third of the EU’s entrepreneurial community because of an environment that makes it more difficult for them to set up and grow their own companies. Only about 8% of the female workforce is self-employed, compared with 16% of men, and almost three times more self-employed men than women have their own staff… read more

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