{"id":1958,"date":"2017-07-24T10:23:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T10:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2017-07-24T10:23:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T10:23:26","slug":"research-reveals-rise-female-led-start-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/research-reveals-rise-female-led-start-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Research reveals rise in female-led start-ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study suggests that there has been a surge in female-led start-up businesses in recent years, contradicting the popular belief that the UK suffers from a gender \u2018enterprise gap\u2019.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to research carried out by Birmingham-based Aston University, the number of women going into business in the UK has grown by 45 per cent over the last ten years.<\/p>\n<p>During that same period, the number of men starting up their own businesses has risen by just 27 per cent in comparison.<\/p>\n<p>However, the research also found that, in today\u2019s business world, 10.4 per cent of UK men currently run their own business, in comparison with just five per cent of women.<\/p>\n<p>This suggests that a gender imbalance does still exist \u2013 despite the fact that this is likely to be reduced in coming years if the last decade\u2019s trend of rising female entrepreneurship continues.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers behind the study analysed data from 60 separate countries all across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Regionally, Aston University\u2019s report found that women in South East England and London are more likely than those elsewhere in the UK to start up their own business.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, seven per cent of female respondents from Britain\u2019s South East said that they would describe themselves as \u2018early-stage\u2019 entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study suggests that there has been a surge in female-led start-up businesses in recent years, contradicting the popular belief that the UK suffers from a gender \u2018enterprise gap\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1959,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions\/1959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}