Peter Strong: Let’s focus on the issues that unfairly affect women who run their own small businesses

As a bloke I can only comment on women who run their own businesses based on observation and what I have been told by my female friends and colleagues. So here goes …

We normally state that about a third of our small business operators are women. That appears to be based on ownership data but I don’t believe that reflects the real situation. There are many, hundreds of thousands, of businesses that may be listed as owned by a male but in the business is that man’s partner, working alongside them to grow the business, including by doing behind-the-scenes work.