Entrepreneurship, where are the female migrants? Well, they are out there. In some places you have to find them with a looking-glass, and some places, they seem to run half the businesses of the city. Female migrants have tons of ideas for starting their business, all the motivation and eagerness, but why don’t we see
Charlotte Dauzat and Kim Lamza, the founders of GATO & Co - a London-based, start-up and healthier pud brand, handmade in the UK with whole, 100% natural ingredients, boosted by superfoods and free from gluten, dairy, refined sugar and flour. These two women found the courage to bring their vegan friendly, gluten free indulgent desserts
Ethnic minority businesses are estimated to contribute £25-£32 billion to the UK economy per year, and women-led enterprises contribute around £70 billion, but sadly they are still very much under represented. The paper Barriers to Ethnic Minority and Women’s Enterprise, published by the Enterprise Research Centre, reviews the research evidence on enterprise diversity. The research
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The EMINENT project is now well underway and the European Partners have been working hard to carry out research and engage with local stakeholders in each of their respective countries, to help us create our Intellectual Output 1, A Good Practice Compendium. The purpose of the Compendium is to establish: Best practice from community organisations,
The European Commission identifies the potential of female visionaries as an ‘under-exploited source of economic growth’ and has launched the Europe 2020 strategy to tackle this. Many of these women have built rewarding businesses, which allow them to sustain a good living and support their families. However, some female migrant entrepreneurs have gone further to
Almost half of the UK’s wine and spirit industry workforce are female, according to a new report published by the Wine and Spirit Trade Association. In total 36% are involved in the production of wine and spirits – and of this percentage, 86% work in spirits distillation. As part of the report, YouGov polled more
The issue of migration is held in high priority in EU policy making and is faced widely on a transnational basis. EMINENT recognises that entrepreneurship education must change to reflect the diversity of our society and needs to address the inhomogeneous needs and barriers of potential entrepreneurs. Only this way the entrepreneurial potentials of all
Women entrepreneurs are defined as women or a group of women who initiate, organize, and operate a business enterprise. As per Government of India, women enterprise is “an enterprise owned and controlled by a woman having a minimum financial interest of 51% of the capital and giving at least 51% of employment generated in the
The Department of Justice and Equality in Ireland has announced grants totalling €10.3 million to promote gender equality, and the integration of migrants. A total of 36 projects will be delivered nationwide over the next three years by NGOs, locally based community groups, and organisations that were successful following open ‘calls for proposals’. The gender
