Barbara Jayne Orser

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When entrepreneurship programs do consider inclusion, most focus on gender without considering age, ethnicity, race or other identity factors. (Shutterstock)

How entrepreneurship education can be more inclusive

Barbara Jayne Orser, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa and Catherine Elliott, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

A toolkit for inclusive entrepreneurship education and training was developed with input from a 19-country panel of entrepreneurship educators.
Les fonds destinés aux femmes visent soi-disant à mettre fin à l’écart entre les sexes dans le monde entrepreneurial. Mais de nombreux investisseurs, en majorité des hommes fortunés, considèrent encore les femmes entrepreneures comme peu compétentes et pratiquent ce que l’on appelle le pinkwashing, ou capital rose. Shutterstock

Progrès ou pinkwashing : à qui profitent les fonds d'investissement destinés aux femmes ?

Barbara Jayne Orser, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Les fonds destinés aux femmes visent à mettre fin à l’écart entre les sexes dans le monde entrepreneurial. Mais de nombreux investisseurs considèrent encore les entrepreneures comme peu compétentes.
Women-focused capital financing is supposedly aimed at ending the corporate gender gap. But many equity investors, still largely high-net-worth men, still view women entrepreneurs as being deficient — and are practising what’s known as pinkwashing. (Shutterstock)

Do women‑focused capital funds actually help women, or are they just ‘pinkwashing?’

Barbara Jayne Orser, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Women-focused capital financing is supposedly aimed at ending the corporate gender gap. But many equity investors still view women entrepreneurs as being deficient and are practising pinkwashing.

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