If you run your own business, or are thinking about running your own business, you might be interested in attending a conference being held in London on 30th September called ‘Realising your potential as a woman entrepreneur’. (more…)

Women in their 30s and 40s are among the most entrepreneurial people in the UK, according to research carried out by the women’s business support network, Prowess. This isn’t a big surprise though when you consider that this is when many women either begin to experience the difficulties of, or simply have enough of, balancing their career with their family responsibilities. Any working woman with children or ageing parents knows only too well how difficult - not to mention expensive - it can be to balance their home-life and their career. Working part-time or in a job share can offer a degree of flexibility but not every career lends itself to such arrangements and, quite rightly, many women are reluctant to compromise their career advancement or salary potential in this way. (more…)

Ridiculous as it seems thirty-eight years after the Equal Pay Act was first introduced, women in employment are still earning considerably less than their male counterparts. According to a report (“Closing the Gender Pay Gap”) published this week by the TUC, adult females in every age group are earning less than men of the same age. While female school-leavers going into full-time jobs earn 9.7% more than their male contemporaries, this positive difference is swiftly over-turned. By the time these same young women are in their twenties, their salary will be on average 3.3% lower than men in full-time employment, the gap rising to 11.2% in their thirties and a shocking 22.8% in their forties. (more…)