girl powered
it was International Women’s Day on Sunday (8th March) - a day to help transform the lives of women & girls all around the world.
I love running my own illustration and design business, and would love to inspire other illustrators and designers to do the same thing. I sell on my own website, on not on the high street, etsy and also by word of mouth.
83% of Etsy’s sellers are women - ‘passionate and powerful female business owners who inspire with their endless work ethic and creativity’.
When I went to the recent #sbs winners event in Birmingham, one of the facts was that 75% of all the sbs winners are female (34% of entrepreneurs are women, and ladies make up 34% on twitter).
On not on the high street - 83% of the 5,000 small creative businesses that sell through the online marketplace are female-owned.
One in three small business owners in the UK are women—and that number is growing every day. If you create your own business, customers connect with your passion, and female-led businesses empower all the brilliant little sisters in your life.
p.s I think boy’s rule too!