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Building Confidence in Global Women Entrepreneurs Ensures They Will Thrive in the Business World

As we are fully aware through our work at WEGG, opportunities for women entrepreneurs have been growing globally at a fast pace. Take India, for example, where the number of women entrepreneurs is mushrooming, but it is very small when compared to the opportunities the market has to offer.

Recently, Mastercard, a technology company in the global payments industry, released the second edition of the Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs (MIWE). Shamina Singh, president, Mastercard Centre for Inclusive Growth, speaks to Jui Dharwadkar [Hindustran Times, Pune] about the findings of this [2nd] index.

Read more here. And the Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs (MIWE) can be found here.

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GES: Keen to Support Women Entrepreneurs In Every Possible Way

Published November 25, 2017 Conference , Country specific , Economic growth , Education , Equality , Gender challenges , global women entrepreneurs , World entrepreneurship Leave a Comment
Tags: GES, Global Entrepreneurship Summit, India, Odisha, women empowerment, women entrepreneurs

The “Road to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) Series in Odisha, India,” brings together industry leaders, start-ups, serial entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors as well as enablers of the innovation ecosystem such as government, international agencies and industry associations not only from India but across the globe. One of the top areas of focus is on women entrepreneurship and gender equality.

The leading woman entrepreneur of the state, Odisha Television Network Director Jagi Mangat Panda, says:

“The most important part of women empowerment is to create an entrepreneurial culture which can only happen if issues concerning women are addressed at the grassroots level. There are gender biases and stereotypes that are so deeply entrenched in our society that a simple passage of a law will not be able to take care of it, rather some extraordinary efforts have to be taken.”

Read more about the road to Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2017, which celebrates women entrepreneurship.

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Women Entrepreneurs: A Global Phenomenon

Published November 5, 2017 Economic growth , Education , Enlighten Me! , global women entrepreneurs , Inspiration , Trends Leave a Comment
Tags: CNBC, economic force, Elaine Pofeldt, GEM, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, global phenomenon, golden age, women entrepreneurs

In recent years, the rate of women entrepreneurs has been growing at a percentage at least double that of their male counterparts. And as Elaine Pofeldt for CNBC says, “the Golden Age for women entrepreneurs has finally begun. The stars have aligned to help trigger the trend as robust ecosystems churn out enterprising females equipped with inspiration, know-how and funding.” We could not agree more.

Ms. Pofeldt goes on to say that a microcosm of the trend is CNBC’S inaugural Upstart 25 list, where 10 of the company fledglings were founded by women in a host of industries — from neuroscience to finance to retail.

Meanwhile, in the 40 economies participating in the sweeping Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) survey in both 2011 and 2016, women’s entrepreneurship rates rose by 13 percent on average, while male rates increased by 5 percent, according to lead author Donna Kelley, a professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College, which prepares the report with Baruch College. The growth has been very swift in recent years.

Learn more about why wom en entrepreneurs will be the economic force to reckon with in 2017 and in years to come.

Women Entrepreneurs Are at the Forefront of Transformation

Published September 2, 2017 Economic growth , Equality Leave a Comment
Tags: Bank of America, glass ceiling, global economy, transformation, Women Business Owner Spotlight

According to the 2017 Bank of America Women Business Owner Spotlight, an annual study of more than 1,000 small business owners, women entrepreneurs expect BIG cracks in the glass ceiling over the next 20 years, with a majority believing that women will match or exceed men in a number of areas, including but not limited to:

80% of female entrepreneurs foresee greater or equal representation of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) fields compared to men in STEM.
68% believe women will match or exceed men in executive leadership or C-suite role representation.
66% believe there will be more women-owned small businesses compared to those owned by men.
61% of women believe their wages will be equal to or greater than those of men.

The study also found that women small business owners have shown significant increases in optimism toward the economy improving in the year ahead – including confidence in their local economy, the national economy and the global economy (32 percent in 2017 vs. 16 percent in 2016).

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Why Women-Owned and Women-Run Businesses Outperform

Published August 26, 2017 Economic growth , Enlighten Me! , Inspiration , Risks Leave a Comment
Tags: avenue of growth, outperform, perform better, pushing boundaries

It’s a fact: women-owned and women-led businesses perform better. And that’s why going global is such an appealing avenue of growth for women entrepreneurs and business owners.

Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary says:

O’Leary speculated that the women’s outperformance is due to more effective time-management skills and an aptitude for setting achievable quarterly goals. The women-run firms in his 44-company portfolio reach their goals 90% of the time, compared to 65% for men-run firms, he says. He believes these strengths lead to higher employee morale and better results.

Other strong possibilities on why women entrepreneurs perform better beyond pushing boundaries:

Smarter decision-making that follows from more diversity of thought; women challenge stale ways of thinking, re-examine facts, generate more innovation and sharpen performance.
Greater efficiency with money.
Taking more carefully calculated risks (forget the myth that women are risk-adverse!).

All these great characteristics can naturally lead women to expand their businesses internationally. The qualities go hand in hand.

Yes to India on Supporting Women-Owned Businesses

Published July 15, 2017 Country specific , Economic growth , Education , Finance , Training (entrepreneurial) Leave a Comment
Tags: Economic growth, job creation, OPIC, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Wells Fargo, women entrepreneurs, Yes Bank, yes to India

India-based Yes Bank (private sector) has received $150 million funding from the US government and Wells Fargo to increase lending to support women entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises in India.

This is the third round of funding to the bank as part of arrangement with the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) – the US government development finance institution – and Wells Fargo.

An estimated three million women-owned businesses in India employ over eight million people. However, only about a quarter of them are able to get the finance they need to grow and create jobs.

Hopefully, this will drive future economic growth and job creation in India for women entrepreneurs.

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Investing in Women-Owned Businesses Will Enhance Africa’s Productivity

Published June 25, 2017 Barriers to trade , Country specific , Economic growth , Education , Equality , Gender challenges Leave a Comment
Tags: Africa, boost economic growth, enhance Africa's productivity, women's empowerment, women-owned businesses

It is the objective of Synergy Systems Consults (UK) Limited, a company that specialises in promoting and identifying partnership and investment opportunities within Africa, to influence dynamic changes in terms of exporting international expertise that will enhance productivity in Africa. For example, the Association of Certified Protocol Practitioners in Nigeria (ACPPN) is a non-profit and non-governmental organization aimed at promoting and raising the standards of protocol practice in Nigeria and sharing best practices globally.

Another initiative is the empowerment of women, which has a great potential to boost economic growth and facilitate the goal of an inclusive sustainable development throughout Africa. Social, cultural, legal and gender specific barriers tend to deprive women of engaging in specific industry supply chains. There is a need to promote the successes and transformative framework for women that will eliminate barriers and build stronger economies.

Investing in women-owned business and assimilating them into corporate supply chains can also contribute significantly to the world’s economy. Today’s economy records less than one per cent of spending by large businesses on suppliers as produced by women-owned business, generating new employment opportunities and so on.

To strengthen competitiveness, a country must focus on women’s empowerment to achieve an innovative and growth-oriented environment.

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3 Reasons to Support Nigerian Women in Agriculture

Published April 29, 2017 Country specific , Economic growth , Exporting Leave a Comment
Tags: boosting exports, economic empowerment, entrepreneurial investment, female farmers, Nigerian women in agriculture, women farmers export

Supporting the food sector, agro-allied businesses and specifically women farmers, boosts the national economy, increases national food supply and exports, empowers women and provides healthier food choices for our families.

In Nigeria, they prefer to buy locally; thereby, enhancing their food security and local consumption. Also by supporting the local female farmers in Nigeria, we are directly:

Powering entrepreneurial investment and exports.
Supporting women-owned businesses.
Helping to put money back into her [a woman’s] household that will feed her children.

As the article below states:

Dried fruits and foods such as plaintain chips can be processed in different ways and sold for economic gains for the farmer, the processor, the exporter and the nation as a whole. All of these are more than sufficient reasons why women should be aggressively and deliberately positioned for economic empowerment.

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Women Entrepreneurs GROW Global

Archive for the 'Economic growth' Category

Building Confidence in Global Women Entrepreneurs Ensures They Will Thrive in the Business World

GES: Keen to Support Women Entrepreneurs In Every Possible Way

Women Entrepreneurs: A Global Phenomenon

Women Entrepreneurs Are at the Forefront of Transformation

Why Women-Owned and Women-Run Businesses Outperform

Yes to India on Supporting Women-Owned Businesses

Investing in Women-Owned Businesses Will Enhance Africa’s Productivity

3 Reasons to Support Nigerian Women in Agriculture

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