Entrepreneurial spirit is strong in the Murraylands, particularly among women.
Women in the region are striving in business whether it be owning their own company or within managerial roles.
A report commissioned by Westpac shows women in business in regional or rural areas get a head start on their city counterparts.
“In regional Australia, almost two-thirds of women who started a business tended to be under 35, compared to 44 per cent of city based businesswomen,” Westpac women’s markets head Larke Riemer said.
The Australian Women in Business - New Insights report says regional businesswomen are more likely to have worked in a different industry before starting at their present business and this suggested they were prepared to take risks, give new things a try and have a higher level of flexibility.
“Generally, women in small business plan more effectively and focus on the long term, as well as short term planning,” Ms Riemer said.
“This suggests women have higher levels of concern about the unknown than their male counterparts.”
Murraylands Regional Development Board chief executive Brenton Lewis said businesswomen tended to be good planners.
“They know exactly what they want to do and they have a far better idea of how they want to do it,” Mr Lewis said.
Women in this specific region of Australia are starting to grow in business. They are also starting younger compared to women in the city. Their are other benefits that women tend to have over men that is showing to be a benefit for each business that’s being started.
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Marion on March 31st, 2008 at 6:53 am
We just held a panel about Women and Entrepreneurs hosted by the E.Factor, which is a online AND offline community for Entrepreneurs globally, male and female :-)
This completely hooks into our discussion. Please see: http://efactor.com/?page=bizexchange&thread_id=21
for an overview of the panel discussion.
The discussion is an interesting one…there are many women entrepreneurs and yes, we do things differently to men.
I’d very much like to hear of anyone else on or about any other info you have on this topic.
Please also take the chance to join the E.Factor - it’s free and we always maintain that whilst we can create the best platform in the world, it’s the contributions of its members that make it truly Unique!