Women in business: where women entrepreneurs rule, UK

Why does Alnwick produce so many female entrepreneurs?
Marianne Kavanagh reports from Northumberland on an unlikely seat of sexual revolution

Nothing in the medieval town of Alnwick, with its light-grey cobbles and honey-brown buildings, suggests a hotbed of female emancipation. Thirty miles north of Newcastle, edged to the east by empty sandy beaches and to the west by a rural landscape of gentle hills, Alnwick doesn’t look like the seat of sexual revolution.

The sex of an entrepreneur shouldn’t, of course, be cause for comment in these enlightened days. But, according to Gavurin, " just under a quarter of businesses in the UK are run wholly by women. Female entrepreneurship, though growing, is still rare – unless you live in Alnwick, where the proportion of businesses run wholly by women has risen to nearly a third."

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(Many thanks to TECHBoise http://techboise.com/ for passing this along. Russ)