News & Highlights from the National Policy Centre for Women's Enterprise http://www.prowesspolicycentre.org.uk/ Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:18:50 +0000 <h2><a title="Press Release" href="/library/display/80" target="_blank">Women entrepreneurs are driving growth through recession</a></h2> <p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Women entrepreneurs are growth oriented and positive about coping with the current economic downturn. These are the findings of a major research report and series of policy briefings commissioned by the National Policy Centre for Women's Enterprise (NPCWE) to be launched at the World Entrepreneurship Summit (WES) on the 20th March.</p> <p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Nearly two thirds of men were worried about the current macroeconomic environment but the figure for women was just over a half. Similarly, nearly 50 per cent of male entrepreneurs were concerned about cashflow compared to fewer than 40 per cent of women.</p> <p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">"While this is a positive story in an otherwise gloomy outlook for the economy as a whole, the real challenge for policy is to address the issue as to why women's representation is so low amongst the growth-oriented entrepreneurial community," commented Rebecca Harding, managing director of the World Entrepreneur Society and of Delta Economics who wrote the research report.</p> <p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">The research suggests that where women entrepreneurs are growing their businesses they have invested as much as their male counterparts to start them up and produce similar growth&#8230; 1 http://www.prowesspolicycentre.org.uk/news/19/press+release