Find out more about about UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) research on GOV.UK
What’s more, there are approximately 75,000 people who previously worked in science, technology, engineering and maths and are both:
keen to return to work in the future
The majority of these people are women
That’s why we have launched the STEM ReCharge initiative. Women returners and austria phone number library science, technology, engineering and maths returners will partner with companies to help people back into careers. These fantastic organisations have now launched the recruitment of returners and employers to the initiative. I’m positive that those employers who take this opportunity will benefit from the talents and experience of tried-and-tested science, technology, engineering and maths professionals.
Find out more about STEM ReCharge on GOV.UK
Equality in entrepreneurship
When it comes to businesses starting out, the Treasury-commissioned Rose Review found that if women started and scaled businesses at the same rate as men, they could boost the economy by £250 billion.
Unfortunately there are barriers in the way. In 2017, for every £1 of venture capital investment in thanks for reading! have a question the UK, all-female founder teams got less than 1 pence. This compares with 89 pence for all-male founder teams.
Last year we launched an industry-led taskforce to increase the number of alb directory women-led high-growth businesses. The taskforce is chaired by Anne Boden, chief executive officer and founder of Starling Bank. The taskforce:
supports women entrepreneurs
influences high-growth investors to help deliver the government’s target of increasing the number of female entrepreneurs by half by 2030
Find out more about the industry-led taskforce on GOV.UK
What’s next?
Change does not always require top-down intervention, it can occur when everyone is pushing in the same direction. Government and industry are working together to open the doors to women across the country, because equality is good business.