Baroness Randerson calls for more women to enter the business world
Wales Office Minister Baroness Randerson met with businesswomen across Wales to inspire women to venture into business
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Baroness Randerson met successful women working in a range of industries from catering and crafts to security and science. She used the opportunity to promote business as a career to women, set out how the UK government is supporting women in business and to hear their inspirational stories on how they have achieved success.
Figures show there are now more women in work than ever before in Wales - some 650,000 women are working in Wales - an increase of 17,000 since May 2010.
Baroness Randerson said:
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The Minister met Lisa Standley - a fellow member of the Welsh Mums in Business network and founder of Cottage Coppicing in Caerleon which makes rural woodland craft products from sustainable local woodland using traditional tools and methods.
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