Female Entrepreneurs Needed Now, Says Matera

“Flexible job opportunities and new entrepreneurial ventures help single mothers and the young unemployed female population to regain economic independence,” said Barbara Matera, MEP and Vice-Chair of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality. The Italian MEP, hosted over 100 participants from the European Parliament, government agencies and business stakeholders for a lunchtime debate on Female Entrepreneurship.

Speaking in the Parliament’s Members’ Salon, Madi Sharma, Member of the Economic & Social Committee, added: “It is not about social or gender arguments; the economic argument is the relevant one. To get us out of the crisis, women entrepreneurs can generate much economic development”. Read More...