Guests attending next week’s Women Mean Business event in Lancashire have been asked a very special question by a government minister.
“What do you think the government could be doing to advance women in business?”
Minister for Women and Equalities, Anneliese Dodds, posed the question in a letter to the Chamber praising the work the business organisation does in inspiring female entrepreneurs in the county.
And although her current schedule and Whitehall commitments mean she will be unable to attend the Stanley House Hotel event on the 13th September, she is keen to hear feedback from attendees.
The event – sponsored by Chamber patron members Code Galaxy – has once again lined up two high-profile speakers who will share their business experience and advice over a two-course lunch at the scenic Lancashire spa hotel.
Jane Simpson, commercial director at United Utilities and nominated as one of the Daily Telegraph’s top 50 women in engineering, will speak alongside Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines MBE, who has recently worked with Hollywood royalty, Anthony Hopkins, on “One Life”. The film documents the life of Sir Nicholas Winton, the humanitarian who rescued hundreds of children during the Holocaust, one of which was Milena.
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Mary Speakman, director and co-founder of Code Galaxy, said: “To have a government minister praise the work being undertaken by the Chamber and partners to support women entrepreneurs in Lancashire just shows how far we have come in recent years.
“But we won’t be resting on our laurels, there is much more that needs to be achieved before there is genuine parity in business. This is what I want all our guests to think about before they attend, we’ve come so far, and we need government backing to go further.
“The speakers we have lined up for next week are genuinely inspirational and I am sure all our guests will once again leave the event feeling inspired and full of energy to go on achieving great things in business.”
