Train 2000 - The Centre for Women's Enterprise and Employment

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• Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Small Business Owners (7500K)
  A comparative study investigating the problems, experiences and barriers faced by BME female and male entrepreneurs in North West England.
• Completing the Revolution: The Leading Indicators (230K)
  Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) Gender equality index
• Enterprise: Unlocking the UK's talent (805K)
  The Enterprise Strategy Summary 2008 from the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform
• Ethnic Minority Women: Routes to Power (735K)
  Commissioned by the Government Equalities Office, this research provides a valuable and fascinating insight into how women, from a range of ethnic minority backgrounds, successfully reached positions of power
• Finance for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (1420K)
  Report on the 2004 UK Survey of Small to Medium (SME) Finances.
• Gender Equality, Economic Growth and Employment (720K)
  Study, financed by the Swedish Ministry of Integration and Gender Equality, which discusses the question of whether there is a connection between gender equality, economic growth and employment.
• Keeping Mum (146K)
  30,000 women every year lose their jobs as a result of becoming pregnant. The Fawcett Foundation calls on the government to stop keeping mum about the links between women's inequality and children's poverty, and to start taking action to support mums.
• Liverpool Economic Briefing (1378K)
  A monitor of employment and wealth generation (1995-2005/6)
• Merseyside Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor 2004 Summary (658K)
  Entrepreneurial activity survey results for the Merseyside region
• Mind The Enterprise Gap (415K)
  Asks the question "Is enterprise policy working to help businesses in deprived areas?".
• Persistent Employment Disadvantage 1974 - 2003 (192K)
  Research comparing the employment prospects of disadvantaged social groups in Britain over the past 30 years.
• Promoting Female Entrepreneurship (110K)
  What evidence is there that women are under-represented in business ownership?
• Realising Our Potential (855K)
  Report summarising an event promoting the talents of Muslim women which took place on the 21st January 2008 in Bolton
• Review of the Enterprise Promotion Fund (746K)
  Final Report for the Small Business Service
• Sex and Power: Who Runs Britain? (871K)
  Where are the women missing from our boardrooms and public life? Whats holding them back? And what price are we - as a society and as employers - paying for their absence?
• The Gender Agenda (7500K)
  The Merseyside Economic Review 2004 offers a picture of improvement in Merseyside across a majority of economic indicators and examines the question of whether this strong growth is experienced and sustained by a key section of our population.
• The Performance, Progress and Promise of Women's Business Centers in the United States (143K)
  A summary of three research studies focused on the performance, progress and promise of women's business centers in the United States
• Women's Business Ownership: Recent Research And Policy Developments (448K)
  Report to the Small Business Service in November 2006.
• Women And Equality (1630K)
  The impact of women's position in the labour market on pay and implications for UK productivity.
• Working towards Equality (631K)
  Achieving equality for women and men at work. (Government Equalities Office: October 2009)