To close out the year, the Womenabler Blog would like to offer up what we see as the most interesting and relevant activities that have taken place in the field of women’s enterprise development. So here – in no particular order – are what we see as the ten most noteworthy trends and events of [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Our Top Ten Womenabling Events of 2009
Posted in business, women's business development, women's business ownership, women's enterprise development, tagged empowering women, Julie Weeks, top ten list, women's business development, women's empowerment, women's enterprise, women's entrepreneurship, Womenable on December 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Women-Owned Firms to Create 1/3 of New Jobs by 2018? Not So Fast …
Posted in business, women's business development, women's business ownership, women's enterprise development, tagged economic impact, empowering women, Guardian Life Index, jobs growth, Julie Weeks, women's business development, women's entrepreneurship, Womenable on December 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It’s another headline that seems a little bit too good to be true (hearkening back to the October announcement from the National Women’s Business Council and the Center for Women’s Business Research that women-owned firms “create or maintain” fully 23 million jobs, more than three times the number published by the US Census Bureau) – [...]
Transition Time in UK for Women’s Enterprise
Posted in business, women's business development, women's business ownership, women's enterprise development, tagged empowering women, Julie Weeks, UK WECOE, UK WETF, United Kingdom, women's business development, women's empowerment, women's enterprise, Womenable on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Given the overall political situation in the United Kingdom, it may come as no surprise that women’s enterprise issues are in transition as well. But even though, as the saying goes, there’s nothing as constant as change, two recent “swan song” events there are noteworthy and warrant some observations. First, the three-year lifespan of the [...]
