Spain’s Jobless Women Become the Boss to Beat the Recession

FIND EQUAL FOUR RISE WOMAN UNEMPLOYED 54.7 SOLUTION 800 PAST ALLOW BECOME Joan ADVANCE

   When it comes to ___ a job in Europe, ___ all citizens are born ___. If you are Spanish, ___ have a one in ___ chance of being unemployed, ___ to one in two ___ you are young. And ___ you are a young ___ in Spain? The chances ___ finding yourself among the ___ are even higher, at ___%. Now however, young Spanish ___ are finding their own ___ to the crisis, discovering ___ value of enterprises that ___ resulted in a record ___,000 businesses being set ___ by women in the ___ five years.

   “The crisis ___ women to seriously consider ___ businesswomen, something many had ___ thought of before,” said ___ Torrent Sellens. In the ___ decades Spanish women have ___ in government and the public sector, but are still behind in setting up enterprises, creating less than 20% of businesses. When analysing the same figures during the crisis, Torrent Sellens found a surprising result: the number of businesses created by women had nearly doubled during the crisis, to just under 40%.

   “These days you can act like a big businessman without having a lot of employees,” said Torrent Sellens. “The crisis allowed women to ask: ‘Why do I have to be a director at a multinational, earning a third of what my male counterparts are earning when I can create, my own business and lead my own project?’ The crisis gave them an alternative, their own way of breaking through the glass ceiling,” he added.

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