Fi Bendall

Women entrepreneurs report experiencing “an overall negative attitude from banks” towards them.

We’re seeing more women abandoning the corporate world to become entrepreneurs. Fi Bendall introduces us to 3 who prove success is not linear.

We’ve never been more networked than we are right now.

Certain birthdays inspire us to reflect a little on where we’ve been and where we’re going in life.

The 2013 Sales and LinkedIn Study, interviewed nearly 3100 business owners, consultants and career salespeople, 79% were small business owners.

Everywhere you look, you see vibrant networks for women, women gathering, discussing and sharing business with one another.

It might sometimes seem like slow progress, but measures across such categories as the increased participation of women in the workforce and the numbers of women opening their own businesses show that things are improving for women in the world of business.

“Mumpreneurs” come in all shapes and sizes, and all of them deserve respect for what they are doing.

Over the past decade a strong “digital factor” has emerged as a driving force behind women getting into business for themselves, spurred by new technology, better access to funding and the demystification of starting a business.

Considerable strides have been in recent years toward gender equality in the Australian workplace, spurred not only by a societal conception of fairness, but also in recognition of the contribution of women to the bottom line of companies and the economic benefit to the country.

The rise of the digital economy has occurred in tandem with the increased participation of women in the workplace.