National Assembly Member Mohammad Asghar has urged the Assembly Government to work towards closing the entrepreneurial gender gap.
Speaking in the Senedd on Tuesday, Mr Asghar quoted figures from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor which suggests that in Wales “women are only 58.3 per cent as likely as men to be entrepreneurs”.
Mr Asghar said that whilst he welcomed any “increase in female entrepreneurial activities in recent years”; it is clear that “a lot of work needs to be done, particularly as the Welsh economy could reap significant benefits if entrepreneurial activity among the female population were to increase”.
The Shadow Minister for Heritage & Equality asked the First Minister whether he is confident that the “Assembly Government is taking appropriate action that will result in a significant decrease in the entrepreneurial gender gap”.
