Written question asked by Stephen Mosley (Conservative) on Monday, 24 November 2014, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 27 November 2014 (named day). It was answered by Baroness Morgan of Cotes (Conservative) on Thursday, 27 November 2014 on behalf of the Women and Equalities.

Business: Women

Question: To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what steps her Department has taken to promote the use of role models for women in business.

Answer: We are actively promoting female role models on our new ‘Women in Enterprise’ web page (http://www.greatbusiness.gov.uk/women-in-enterprise/ ) and as part of our Great Business campaign. We have invested £1.9m in the Get Mentoring project, which recruited and trained over 6000 mentors to specifically support female entrepreneurs. We announced earlier this month that we would build on this programme by holding a series of ‘Meet a Mentor’ events for women in venues across the UK.

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