The Role and Contribution of Women’s Entrepreneurship和妇女创业贡献作用.pptVIP

The Role and Contribution of Women’s Entrepreneurship Professor Sara Carter University of Strathclyde RSA / DTI London 27th June 2005 The Role and Contribution of Women’s Entrepreneurship Numbers and trends Quantitative assessment of numbers and trends in UK Comparative analysis of EU, US and GEM 34 nations Focus on US experience Women’s experience of self-employment and business ownership Characteristics of women-owned businesses in the UK Constraints and their causes Academic discourses and policy implications How women entrepreneurs are viewed in academic research Recent policy and advocacy initiatives UK Women’s Enterprise:Numbers and Trends Women’s business ownership trends in the UK are unknown Definitional ambiguities: entrepreneurship, business ownership self-employment degree of women’s ownership (wholly, majority, co-owned etc) Statistical anomalies: no gender disaggregation of business ownership datasets only self-employment data available by gender reliance on survey data and anecdotal evidence SME survey estimates suggest 15% women-owned 35% jointly owned by men and women 50% men-owned Treasury goal to increase women-owned businesses from 15% to 20% Source: FSB 2004 / SBS 2004 Female Self-employment in UK Women are under-represented in self-employment and business ownership, despite policies designed to increase rates of participation and despite expansion in business and personal services Q1 1992: 899,000 self-employed women 7% of economically active women 26% of self-employed population) Q1 2004: 963,000 self-employed women 7% of economically active women 26% of self-employed population Modest fluctuations, but no overall expansion in female share of self-employment in past 20 years Evidence of relatively low in-flows into and relatively high (and unexplored) out-flows from self-employment Source: Labour Force Survey, ONS UK Female Self-employment by UK Region North East 4.4% North West 5.5% Yorkshire Humber