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Attitudes like this make it unsurprising that only 17% of of small business in the UK are owned by women. Writing in The Guardian's Women in Leadership section Anne McPherson points out what a huge loss this is for the UK: "Not only is this a real opportunity for our economy if we can encourage more women to set up businesses, but our own polling of female entrepreneurs shows that those women who do make the leap and start their own business report a greatly improved work-life balance, increased confidence levels and the type of job flexibility that make them never want to work for someone else."