Is this tailored policy discrimination really necessary? We blindly tried to turn the poor into self-made entrepreneurs, let’s be careful in now focusing on turning women into their risk-taking male equivalent counterparts just for the sake of self-enterprise. See latest EU initiative

Female mentors to help woman entrepreneurs to get started

A new European network of mentors to promote female entrepreneurship through the sharing of know-how and experience has been launched today by the European Commission. Women only account for 34.4% of the self-employed in Europe. To raise this share, successful businesswomen will assist women entrepreneurs who established a new enterprise two to four years ago. The mentors will give these new entrepreneurs concrete advice on how to run and grow their enterprises in this early, critical phase of the businesses as well as help them to develop the necessary soft skills and coach them. The network will cover 17 European countries; 170 mentors will participate in it.