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		<title>Small is beautiful: the environmental benefits of home-business</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Watson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As world leaders head to Copenhagen to trade ideas, if not actions, on a low-carbon future, let&#8217;s hope their reading lists are not restricted to the new and shiny. Thirty five years ago EF Schumacher wrote ‘Small is Beautiful’, which predicted the devastation we now see from squandered natural resources. He called for an economics [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=enterpriseandequality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9798621&amp;post=65&amp;subd=enterpriseandequality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Childcare supply crisis for start-ups</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Watson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when we were beginning to think it wasn’t the big issue it used to be, it seems that childcare has returned as a problem for start-up businesses, but in quite a different way to before.  A few years ago, the issue was cost.  Now with great help from tax credits and Sure Start, that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=enterpriseandequality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9798621&amp;post=61&amp;subd=enterpriseandequality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Global gender gap: Iceland tops while UK slips</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Watson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iceland&#8217;s woman-powered response to the global recession appears to have propelled it to the top of the global gender gap charts. The World Economic Forum released its annual Global Gender Gap index (GGGI) on Tuesday, a comprehensive country-by-country ranking of gender equality. Overall it finds that 67% of countries have improved gender equality, while 33%, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=enterpriseandequality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9798621&amp;post=52&amp;subd=enterpriseandequality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Financial crisis: women respond</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Watson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ruth Sutherland, Business Editor of the Observer, reported today on Deauville, the Women&#8217;s International economic summit.  The illustration above beautifully sums up the event buzz: in a nutshell, the impact of the financial crisis needs holistic and long-term responses and to take into account the context of climate change, food supply, health and governance.  Women [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=enterpriseandequality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9798621&amp;post=39&amp;subd=enterpriseandequality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ethical business &#8211; learning from the Co-op</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Watson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What an honour. This morning I was the first ever customer of a new Cooperative mini-market in Norwich: glad to be accosted by excited balloon waving, sash wearing staff, though slightly unsure about the one squashed into a squelching strawberry outfit.  There are now three Co-ops within a mile of my home.  The Co-op, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=enterpriseandequality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9798621&amp;post=25&amp;subd=enterpriseandequality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marketing Awards to Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Watson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The future&#8217;s not female, it seems, if you live in Norfolk.  Following a campaign to identify the ‘Future 50’ businesses by regional Daily newspaper, the EDP, only two of the businesses to watch have any degree of female leadership. This just doesn&#8217;t add up, either with enterprise statistics or my local knowledge.  So what went wrong [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=enterpriseandequality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9798621&amp;post=19&amp;subd=enterpriseandequality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Calls for a benefits buffer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Watson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emma Harrison, founder and Chair of leading welfare to work provider A4e, has called this week for a ‘benefits buffer’, which would cushion the sharp transition from welfare benefits into work (or starting a business). ”It’s very, very frightening if you’re on benefits, to take a job,” she says in the Guardian , highlighting worries [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=enterpriseandequality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9798621&amp;post=3&amp;subd=enterpriseandequality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why a blog about Enterprise &amp; Equality?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Watson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, why a blog about Enterprise &#38; Equality?  I believe both are necessary for healthy business and society.  And given current economic, social and environmental challenges, innovators are more important than ever.  While it&#8217;s fairly well established that diverse teams almost always produce a better result than narrower groups; there is growing evidence that that the same applies to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=enterpriseandequality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9798621&amp;post=1&amp;subd=enterpriseandequality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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