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• Entries are now open for the everywomen awards, which aim to celebrate achievement in an industry they dominate only as consumers.
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• Businesswomen to be recognised
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• Anita Roddick
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• The new breed of mumpreneur
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• Funding seminar for female entrepreneurs
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• Supermum: the work-life balance challenge
• Chrissie Rolls, a Musical Minis franchisee based in Swindon, talks about the challenges of juggling motherhood and business ownership.
• See more in: women in business, childcare, music, buy a franchise, franchisee, interview

• Motherhood makes women more entrepreneurial
• A majority of entrepreneurial mums believe that having children gave them the motivation and skills to start a new business.
• See more in: news, mothers, internet, online, e-commerce, mothers, working mums, women in business, start a business

• The mumpreneur: online coaching business
• Female entrepreneurs are very different from their male counterparts. Mel McGee explains why...
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• Mumpreneurs starting a business
• Why do women choose to go it alone in business? BusinessWings talked to three mothers who own successful businesses to find out.
• See more in: work, home, motherhood, mother, children, maternity leave, mumpreneur, women in business, interview, work from home, start a business

• Martha Stewart
• What Oprah did for American women's insecurities and emotional scars Martha did for their cooking, baking and upholstery. Temporarily a billionaire, Martha Stewart made housewifery lucrative.
• See more in: Martha Stewart, television, magazines, cooking, decor, gardening, entrepreneur, , women in business, profile

• Katharine Graham
• She abdicated her vast, inherited wealth, but apart from helping to bring down the Nixon government, taking on the male-dominated publishing establishment, and winning the Pulitzer Prize it had little motivational effect.
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• Coco Chanel
• With a name like Coco, it should come as no surprise that Chanel was a cabaret singer before she blurred the distinctions between male and female fashion.
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