According to Aisha Natu, who writes a weekly column in a local Saudi Arabia paper, current regulations and bureaucracy is hampering the development of businesses run by women in Saudi Arabia. She says, “Women don’t only want to be seen,
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Why has Forbes referred to 2014 as the break-out year for female entrepreneurs? Reasons are aplenty:
For example, nearly 20 percent of early stage “angel” funding was invested in women-led businesses in 2012 – a growth of 40 percent from the previous year.
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In Manila, Bacolod, Tacloban, Pampanga, Batangas and Davao, more than 400,000 women small business owners participated in Sari-Saring Happiness Day. Coca-Cola (part of the global 5by20 Program) launched it to brighten Christmas all over the Philippines.
“Christmas is the most celebrated season in the Philippines,
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To achieve economic empowerment, women entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka yearn for a successful career. They also help their families, and the country, prosper. Women entrepreneurship can contribute to a country’s development process in a number of ways.
At an individual level, it creates employment opportunities for women.
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Women entrepreneurs in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei Province are willing and able to actively participate in a new type of collaboration. The three associations of women entrepreneurs sought to implement the Beijing, Tianjin and Heibei Province collaborative development strategy, a joint initiative of the three women entrepreneurs,
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After years of work with women entrepreneurs internationally, Amy Scerra and Steve Haase of Think Global Institute decided to bring their global program full circle—and they’re starting in Denver, Colorado.
The nonprofit hosts a 12-week “business accelerator” program for women entrepreneurs who have “hit a roadblock or hurdle,” says Scerra.
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My friend, colleague and entrepreneur dynamo, Melinda Emerson, kicks off the 6th annual Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), a menu of events around the world that bring together millions of people through web-based and live activities, by supporting women entrepreneurs and their essential contributions to our world economic health and well-being.
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How do you advance women’s entrepreneurship? Five Babson College women have spent their careers studying women entrepreneurs, and they’re sharing that knowledge in order to create policies and strategies to help more women succeed in business in countries around the world.
Called the Women Innovating Now Lab,
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Women are making their mark in the entrepreneurial world yet they continue to face problems, particularly in cities such as Delhi-NCR, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, Bangalore and Ahmedabad.
A survey of women entrepreneurs conducted by research advisory firm Greyhound Knowledge Group found that numerous challenges frustrate women.
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