Female entrepreneurs 'face different problems to men'

Female entrepreneurs face different difficulties when compared with their male counterparts, it has been claimed.

According to comments made by Tanya Hine, the president of the British Association of Women Entrepreneurs (BAWE), women who have to balance the development of a business and raising a family "cannot have it all".

In the UK, of those who are self-employed, 27 per cent are women.

"You cannot be, all the time, with a career and deal with the baby who wakes up in the middle of the night to be fed," said Ms Hine.

"It's a difficult thing. You have to realise that you cannot have it all and you have to see where your priorities [lie] - that's what it's all about," she added.

However, of those women who do opt to start their own business, more than 50 per cent draw their motivation from a desire to work flexibly.