Entrepreneurship, Neurodiversity & Gender
Exploring Opportunities for Enterprise and Self-employment as Pathways to Fulfilling Lives
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Drawing on inspirational stories of neurodivergent entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Neurodiversity & Gender provides insights into their respective journeys, challenges, and triumphs, alongside discussions with their allies and members of their ecosystem. Readers are offered innovations and solutions within the workplace and organisational design, employing both “neurodivergent” and “neurotypical” individuals to enable satisfying career paths for neurodivergent women.
Entrepreneurship, Neurodiversity & Gender shines a spotlight on issues of intersectionality and opens the debate on how we can develop and support the options of entrepreneurship or self-employment that are offered to young people early on in their career. Yolanda Gill and Dinah Bennett aim to explore and foster greater awareness of and support through policy and practice. They also ask how can we ensure that the legal and policy environment does not create additional barriers to opportunities for enterprise and self-employment as pathways to fulfilling lives?
Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Core Concepts
- Chapter 3. Working for others
- Chapter 4. Entrepreneurial Journeys
- Chapter 5. Enterprising Learning and Skillsets
- Chapter 6. Creating Support Ecosystems
- Chapter 7. Looking towards the future
Dinah Bennett, OBE, champions the need for policy makers and influencers to create more enabling environments which provide support for both individuals and developing Small and Medium Enterprises. Over the course of three decades, Dinah’s world-wide, award-winning work has continued to focus on how the combined experiences of disadvantage and discrimination affect the ability to succeed as an entrepreneur. Dinah’s passion and commitment with regard to supporting women’s economic empowerment resonate on the global stage.
Yolanda K Gibb has an international portfolio career including spells in academia, industry, NGOs and international organisations as well as running her own business. Yolanda´s work spans policy, partnering with the ecosystem and directly engaging with entrepreneurs with a focus on understanding how people think, connect, and learn.