In the UK More Women Than Ever Want to be Their Own Boss
So says a survey by the UK Government sponsored Business Link and they are quite right.
Thousands of women have turned their back on the monthly salary cheque preferring instead to take the often daunting step of running their own businesses.
All over the UK women are on the move ? away from the dictates of the office and corporate environment, into the realms of the self-employed. Small businesses run by women are where you can find the different, the quirky and the original, redressing the balance of the multi-nationals in our high streets. We have gone through the industrial revolution away from the countryside and into the city and now we are experiencing a small business revolution by women away from the institutions and city office, back to the home and local environment. Women are giving up striving to break through the ?glass ceiling? for in some cases decorating those ceilings.
A major factor in this change is the revolution in communications. With the advent of the internet, computer technology and mobile phones has come the freedom not to be tied to an office desk and women are grasping this opportunity to get the work/life balance they are happy with. It is now no longer thought unprofessional to have a home office, in fact it?s something to be envyed. These women are not striving ?to have it all? but to have more control and flexibility in their working lives. Although sometimes this involves a drop in income this is balanced by the freedom to set their own working hours, if need be around their family commitments, and the exhilaration and excitement that comes with creating new businesses ? some of which are already growing into multi-million pound companies. What we are seeing is the dawning of the age of the female entrepreneur.
Susan Meara is the Founder of http://www.WomenWorking4Women.co.uk a website for women owned businesses with a mission to harness the power of the Internet and E-commerce for the benefit of its members.
Comprehensive information and advice on UK business start-ups is available via the website:
http://www.businesslink.gov.uk
