‘Gender Debate’ Archive

National Women’s Angel Day on 9 June 2010 June 7, 2010 No Comments

We thought that you may like to know that it’s the first National Women’s Angel Day on 9 June, which aims to raise awareness of the staggeringly low number of female business angels in the UK.
Angels Lounge is holding a day of events around the country on 9 June and female investors are welcome to [...]

The battle of the sexes and funding for starting a business January 21, 2010 No Comments

At Angels Den we do like to tackle the big (and controversial) issues, especially when it comes to those that affect funding for starting a business, so here goes.
Over the years the debate has raged on about whether it is men or women who make the better business owners. Now while I appreciate that your [...]

City Inadequacy Encouraging Female Entrepreneurs May 5, 2009 No Comments

Don’t get me wrong: I’m no feminist… I’m very much a man’s man—a bloke hailing from north of the border, for goodness’ sake — but I don’t think that you need to have two X chromosomes to see that the issue of pay-packet inequality is completely ridiculous. Women have worked diligently for decades on end, [...]

The 2008 Budget Offers Women Entrepreneurs Very Little March 13, 2008 No Comments

Following on from the 2008 budget, much talk has been of Alistair Darling’s new £12.5m capital fund to encourage women entrepreneurs. With only 14% of small businesses being run by Women (Annual Small Business Survey 2006) there is no surprise that more help is needed.
The proposed fund intends to give potential women entrepreneurs the basics [...]