Furness Association of Businesswomen

Latest News: 17th February 2010

Furness Enterprise is one of eight organisations in the country and the only organisation in the south of Cumbria to become an accredited Women’s Business Centre (WBC). Furness Enterprise received the award at the Women in Business Awards at Ribby Hall Village at the end of January 2010.

Contact: Val Robinson, Furness Enterprise (01229) 820611

About Fab

Furness Association of Business Women (FAB) was formed in November 2007. FAB is a not-for-profit organisation consisting of entrepreneurial business women, living and working within the Furness peninsula.

FAB's aim is to provide a forum for business women and women in business to support each other, network and exchange experiences. The monthly meetings also offer the opportunity for members to publicise their achievements and discuss issues that affect business owners. FAB women also have a social conscience and are investigating a number of local charities to support in the future.

Members are from many different areas of business including specialists in payroll administration, multi-media marketing, public relations and marketing, human resources, interior design and retailers, to name but a few.

Membership of FAB is open to women who run their own business in the Furness area, or are planning to, and/or who are in a decision making position within a business. Membership is also open to women who are supporters or advisers of such women.

Member Benefits include:

Regular FAB events. Members encouraged to bring a guest.

Regular FAB networking opportunities throughout the Furness area

FREE business support and advice

Reduced member rates

FAB Woman of the Month - Company profile on the FAB web site

Opportunity to promote events on the FAB noticeboard

Latest News: More women then men in top UK professions

Tuesday 11th August 2009

More women than men in the UK now work in high status professions, research from the University of Cambridge has shown.

But men are still paid far more than women, the report said, with the changing nature of women's work and better education bringing a "quiet revolution in the workplace", the study of 300 occupations found.

UK women are pulling ahead by a tiny margin in professions such as medicine and law, the researchers noted.

The author of the report, Dr Robert Blackburn, said: "Formerly women were more likely than men to be in manual occupations, but as manual work has declined, it is predominantly women who have moved into non-manual jobs.

"Initially... women tended to be employed in low-level non-manual occupations, especially clerical work. More recently, they have contributed to the expansion of professional employment."

He said jobs defined as higher status like nursing and teaching did not always pay better than the dirty and dangerous manual work, usually carried out by men.

The trend still showed men tended to be better paid than women because within each occupation, men were generally more senior