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Almost half of new businesses started by women for first time
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1. Women in Scotland are now starting new businesses at almost the same rate as men, researchers have found.
A record number of women and ethnic minorities are starting their own businesses, a study found
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The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) said a record 8.6 per cent of working-age women were setting up or already running an early-stage business last year.
That was slightly lower than men, at 9.8 per cent, although the report said the difference is no longer “statistically significant”.
Scotland is said to be one of the best performing nations globally under that measure.
Alongside that, activity among the non-white population also reached a new high of 24.1 per cent.
In spite of those improvements Scotland’s overall total early-stage entrepreneurial activity rate was
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