Research published in 2018 by Boston Consulting Group found that although on average female business owners receive less than half the level of investment their male counterparts get, they produce more than twice the revenue.

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It was the Danish economist Ester Boserup who first came up with the plough hypothesis: that societies that had historically used the plough be less gender equal than those that hadn’t.

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Women have always worked. They have worked unpaid, underpaid, underappreciated, but they have always worked. But the modern workplace does not work for women.

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Which raises the question: is women’s unpaid work under valued because we don’t see it—or is it invisible because we don’t value it?

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… Hertha Ayrton remarked that errors overall are “notoriously hard to kill […] an error that ascribes to man what was actually the work of a woman has more lives than a cat”.

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