Starting or growing a business that reflects your values, not just the market’s expectations Designing workplaces that work for carers, disabled colleagues and people who have been historically excluded Using your spending and investing power to support women-led and global majority- owned businesses Building and joining ecosystems, networks, collectives, mentoring circles that redistribute access, information, and opportunity full-time entrepreneurship. But everyone has an economic life: we work, earn, spend, save, invest, and influence. Not everyone will choose
Source Notes This article draws on insights from Beverly Vanterpool’s participation as a virtual attendee in the parallel event “The transformative role of women entrepreneurs: from economic empowerment to inclusive representation”, held during the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) in March 2026. The event featured contributions from panellists - Prof. Dr. Göknur Akçadağ, Lucrecia Vanni, Zinhle Ngiba, Ayça Karayel and Åsa Krug, whose reflections on women’s economic empowerment, leadership and representation inform this piece.
The real question is: Are we only navigating the systems we have been handed, or are we, in small and large ways, helping to redesign them?
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