The female-owned startup is on the rise and some pretty neat products and services are coming to the fore, breathing fresh new life into the business world. Around 45% more women went into business in the last decade and the figure seems to increase as women leap at the chance of escaping the corporate grind in favour of pursuing their own thing. But it takes a special set of skills in order to achieve this feat. In order to get the most out of a business venture, it’s important to employ some effective mind tricks to overcome even the toughest mental obstacles.

The UK’s leading local services marketplace has analysed data from more than 400,000 British businesses and three million job requests, to reveal which businesses will be the most successful to start in 2019, based on supply and demand. Dog and pet grooming tops the list, with only 20% of job requests finding a professional on average across the country, indicating there is not enough supply in the sector.

While our phones are often full of apps to help us keep our bodies in top physical condition by eating better or running further, we can often neglect to look after our mind in the same way. We have been researching some of the top apps will help you to put your mind back onto your health agenda:

Competency-based interviews (those seeking to elicit how you may have showed core competencies for a job in your past) are the ‘gold standard’ when it comes to interviews, and it is particularly important for women seeking leadership positions, to highlight core competencies. One large-scale review on women in both the UK and the US has shown that “Women are likely to undervalue the skill levels of their jobs, whereas men tend not to do so.” Related research on gender differences shows that men and women do not actually differ significantly in the competencies they possess.

• 54% of women believe there are now more women working in tech than five years ago.
• 63% of women cite ‘being taken seriously’ as the number one challenge in the tech industry.
• 67% of women believe ‘making a positive impact’ is the best thing about being a woman in tech.

A leading London-based fund has kick-started a campaign to improve investment equality between male and female founders. Currently, just 4% of more than 4,000 pitch decks and enquiries for investment received by the fund over the last four years have been from companies with female founders and just 13% with female founding members. The London-based VC firm surveyed the female founders from its decks on why they haven’t sought investment previously, more than half said they feared they wouldn’t be taken seriously.

Over six hundred inspirational women came together today to highlight and celebrate the achievements of their peers from across the UK.

The 36^th annual Women of the Year Luncheon and Awards drew a star-studded audience to the Hilton Birmingham Metropole to see four accolades presented.

Sally Preston, founder and Managing Director of Kiddylicious, scooped the Business Woman of the Year award at the event.

Nominations are Open for Global Thinkers Forum’s 2018 Awards for Excellence Gala

London, October, 2018 – Global Thinkers Forum has opened the nominations for 8 categories in this year’s 2018 Awards for Excellence. To commemorate the centennial of the Suffragette movement, the theme of the awards is Women: 100 Years of Passion and Purpose. This year’s awards ceremony will honour eight women who have made a significant contribution and played an inspirational role in furthering women in the areas of:

Nearly two-thirds (61%) of women would take an organisation's gender pay gap into consideration when applying for jobs, a new survey from the Equality and Human Rights Commission reveals.

The poll, commissioned to understand the impact of the gender pay gap on staff motivation and behaviour, also shows that 58% of women would be less likely to recommend their present employer as a place to work if they had a gender pay gap, and half of women say that a gender pay gap would reduce their motivation in their role and their commitment to their employer.