Presenting: HerVenture
A presentation about the Foundation's HerVenture app for the Women Entrepreneurs Mean Business summit, exploring and challenging the gender stereotypes holding women entrepreneurs back from success and equality. Because we won’t wait 250+ years for women to have economic equality.
Because we won’t wait 250+ years for women to have economic equality.
Women Entrepreneurs Mean Business (9 to 19 November 2021) sought to galvanise urgent action to tackle gender stereotypes, with an incredible line-up of celebrated women entrepreneurs, high profile thought leaders on women’s economic empowerment, policymakers, academics, activists. Together, the Foundation, speakers and attendees are united by a common refusal to wait the 250+ years it is currently predicted to take for women to have economic equality with men.
Day three—”Digital Futures: women entrepreneurs won’t be left behind by tech”—featured a presentation by Cherie Blair Foundation for Women team members Hayley Matthews, Senior Partnerships Manager – Trusts and Foundations, and Elizabeth Wells, Acting Head of Women’s Entrepreneurship. This presentation formed a introduction to the Foundation’s award-winning mobile learning app for women entrepreneurs, HerVenture, and its achievements.
Together, these sessions and the Foundation’s research report on the impact of gender stereotypes on women entrepreneurs set out the clear case for eradicating the gender gap in entrepreneurship and supporting women entrepreneurs, as well as identifying strong calls to action for different stakeholders at every level.
