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High-flying women: did they jump or were they pushed?

by Anna McNamee
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Hopefully, this will begin to counter some of the difficulties faced by wheeler-dealing women, such as Martha Lane-Fox. She was a driving force behind the Internet company lastminute.com, and has said that empire-building is not always easy when you’re fighting against a culture that still believes that, as a ‘little woman, you’d be better off at home in the kitchen’. She remembers, ‘The first venture capitalist I went to see (for finance) was a man. His first question to me was what would happen if I got pregnant. My face just fell.’

Whether it comes to encouraging women to seize the e-enterprise day or to aspire to the boardroom ‘a lot more could be done,’ says Penny Hughes. ‘We need to give women a helping hand, a bit like in the US, where there is a structure to help potential women entrepreneurs. Also, when a company is recruiting at a senior level and it wants to make a change in business, they should at least make sure that they have got the best woman available on the shortlist. Women should not be put into a job just because they are female, but the best female candidate should at least be considered.’

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