A woman to woman approach to foster entrepreneurship
Date: 06/10/2009
See also: Press release
More women are needed in business. This week, 130 successful European businesswomen are kicking off a campaign to encourage more women to become entrepreneurs and start their own companies. Appointed by Commissioner Vladimír Špidla yesterday evening in Stockholm, these successful business women will act as Entrepreneurship Ambassadors.
The 2008 Small Business Act which aims to improve the overall approach to entrepreneurship called for more women in businesses. Indeed, compared with men, fewer women in the EU are self-employed and even fewer start businesses or express the ambition to do so. Today female entrepreneurs constitute only 34.4% of self-employed and only 20% in industry.
The Female Entrepreneurship Ambassadors] will serve as role models and highlight the role that women can play in creating jobs and promoting competitiveness.