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Australia has no shortage of entrepreneurship programs, incubators, startup workshops, and business leadership courses aimed at encouraging more women to start their own businesses, but are they selling a pipe dream instead of actually helping women?
I’ve heard community leaders openly admit that multicultural women needed to start a business to gain a sense of belonging and that it “didn’t matter” whether they were making money or not. Whether they are university-led, community-led, or corporate-led, the entire business coaching sector is rife with programs that simply don’t work and were never intended to achieve the goals they were made for.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Amanda Rose is the founder of Small Business Women Australia, Western Sydney Women and Western Sydney Advisory. She has also been named as one of the most influential people in Western Sydney.
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