The Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards are an international business plan competition created in 2006 by Cartier, the Women’s Forum, McKinsey & Company and INSEAD business school to identify, support and encourage projects by women entrepreneurs.
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The Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards are an international business plan competition created in 2006 by Cartier, the Women’s Forum, McKinsey & Company and INSEAD business school to identify, support and encourage projects by women entrepreneurs.
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Successful entrepreneur Jo Burston (pictured) didn’t always think of herself as an entrepreneur. Her thoughts were like this:
“When I grew up the script in my head was go to school, get a job, save up,
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Guaranty Trust Bank partnered with She Leads Africa (SLA) to support and invest in promising African female entrepreneurs. SLA selected six finalists from more than 400 applications spanning across 30 African countries who all gathered at the 2015 entrepreneur showcase in Oriental Hotel Lagos to pitch their businesses to a panel of judges and an audience of potential investors and customers.
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According to studies, American women currently are starting twice the number of businesses as their male counterparts. Author Julia Pimsleur believes there is a significant difference between female- and male-owned businesses and that difference is that most women are in small-business mode — and seemingly stuck there.
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For those women interested in exporting this unusual Japanese fashion trend to other countries, it’s a set of cat-themed lingerie (as shown) that are flying off the shelves in Japan.
On the surface, the Japanese underwear looks like a regular pair of bra and panties.
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Kalraj Mishra, the Indian Union Cabinet Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in the BJP-led NDA government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched ‘SWAYAM’, a support cell for women entrepreneurs to seek proposals for starting enterprises by them through the use of social media.
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The recent Global Startup Ecosystem (GSE) Ranking report found that “the trend for female entrepreneurs is significantly up,” with the number of new businesses started by women rising by 80 per cent in the past three years. While startups in the past were sprung forth nearly entirely from places like Silicon Valley and Boston,
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While female entrepreneurs’ education level has increased, the innovation of female-owned businesses, measured by whether other businesses offer the same product, has decreased. There is less female involvement in the technology industry this year as well.
The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute (GEDI) recently released the 2015 Female Entrepreneurship Index (FEI),
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A call to action to boost the role of women in the modern 21st century.
Author Rania Habiby Anderson, who wrote Undeterred: The Six Success Habits of Women in Emerging Economies, spent over four years researching and interviewing more than 250 successful female career women and entrepreneurs in developing countries in Africa,
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