Trish Dromey: Encouraging women with potential to set up companies

Jennifer Melia at Enterprise Ireland aims to help women to set up their own firms, writes Trish Dromey

Trish Dromey: Encouraging women with potential to set up companies
Sun, 01 Mar, 2020 - 15:15
Trish Dromey

Jennifer Melia at Enterprise Ireland aims to help women to set up their own firms, writes Trish Dromey

Tne stark fact showing the under-representation of women in the business world is that companies with female founders secured only €4.5m of the €24m invested by Enterprise Ireland in start-ups last year.

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