Posts Tagged ‘women in business’

Women professionals reinforce necessity of networking with launch of new discussion group

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Pro.manchester has launched a new discussion group for women, known as pro.women, which will provide women with a venue within which they can discuss business and network effectively.

A recent article has stated that as women become more visible in the world of business, they must realise that they shouldn’t attempt to compete with men simply by imitating them. The Office for National Statistics has shown that women make up a quarter of all business owners in the North West.

The article has also shown that the group believes that women should be playing a much more active role in networking to help lift the North West economy out of the ‘mancession’ – the detrimental effect that the classic male attributes of short-term thinking had caused.

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Women are gaining huge benefits from business networking, according to new research

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

According to research conducted by Women Unlimited, as many as 85% of women in business have seen a significant benefit from attending networking events. One in five make more than £10,000 in a year through sales as a result of the events.

The research has been conducted as a response to a Times article published in March that stated that women are naturally bad networkers, needing to overcome their fear of socialising and ‘start schmoozing like men’. Social media expert Liz Cable had said, “I think when women hear the phrase ‘social network’, they hear social. Men hear network.”

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Women in Toys event set to introduce beneficial networking opportunities for women in the industry

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

In its first UK event, which will take place on July 15th at Sway Bar in London, the Women in Toys Association (WIT) will allow professionals to network, whilst also recognising the achievements of women in the industry.

The organisation was founded in Hong Kong in 1991 by Susan Matsumoto and Anne Pitrone, who had been involved in women’s organisations since the late 1960s.

After several informal get-togethers of industry professionals proved to be successful, it was decided that it could be formalised and made into an official event.

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Is business networking more important for female entrepreneurs?

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Since the 1970s and 80s there has been a greater number of women becoming successful in business, and the days of business success being a masculine pursuit are very much over. According to figures in the Wall St Journal, the total number of majority women-owned businesses has doubled between 1992 and 2006, from 5.4m to 10.4m.

Women have consistently launched new enterprises at twice the rate of men, and their growth rates of revenue and employment have outshone the economy. However, despite all of this progression, businesses owned by women are still comparatively small, there is still a clear pay-gap and the average income revenue of women-owned businesses were only 27% of the average of male-run businesses.

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TV Apprentice star to feature at business networking event for women

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

Chard, Ilminster and Crewkerne female entrepeneurs are being invited to a networking event that will feature Saira Khan on Friday 21st May.

The event, ‘Unsuited and Unbooted’ will run for the day and give advice for making sales online and offline, as well as how to hire staff effectively. Saira Khan, who was an infamous runner up in the first series of the BBC One series ‘The Apprentice’, will delivery the keynote address as well as speak to participants at the event.

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