The committee called on the government to open up investment routes for women.<\/p>\n
It set a target for its own British Business Bank to ensure no less than 30% of the finance it makes available goes to female-led businesses. <\/p>\n
It also called for more support outside the London area, and for more visible female role models.<\/p>\n
The committee is now investigating whether enough progress has been made since its report was published. <\/p>\n
Dixon said women face significant barriers to setting up their own business.<\/p>\n
“They’re burnt out and absolutely knackered.”<\/p>\n
She said the pressures of managing a household, being a mam, and the menopause all impact on running a business. <\/p>\n
She said more childcare provision was needed and more support for women with neurodiversity. <\/p>\n
Dixon also believes women lack confidence because of society.<\/p>\n
“We feel muted by expectations around how we should act as women.”<\/p>\n
She said women need more encouragement “to be exactly who we want to be, with all our quirkiness and unique ideas.”<\/p>\n
She describes her community shed in Seaham as “magical” and “nostalgic”.<\/p>\n
“If the government were to plough more money into spaces like this, you’d see one heck of a difference in the economy in the area.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The committee called on the government to open up investment routes for women. It set a target for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[84,4203,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-591203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}