More women going self-employed 16:00

Posted on 30 May 2008

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Employment experts have described an increase in the number of women setting up their own business as "really good news".

A spokesperson for employer pressure group the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) said the number of women setting up a business was "increasing rapidly", adding that many of those starting new businesses were women in their 30s and 40s.

He stated "A lot of women-owned businesses are start-ups from home.

“It’s becoming something that is quite possible to do and it’s a bit easier for women to balance work and life, perhaps, than it was and you can do that a bit more easily if you’re working from home in particular.

The spokesperson claimed many internet-based businesses were set up by women working from home, entering a market which had traditionally been "male-dominated."

Research from the Report to the Small Business Service, from November 2006, showed 1,013,000 women in the UK were self-employed, an increase of around ten per cent since 2002.

 

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