Developing Dubai’s female entrepreneurs

The winds of change are blowing as strong as ever for female entrepreneurs in the UAE.

The stereotypes that once relegated women to the sidelines of business have been washed away, with increasing numbers of executive roles being filled by females, and more and more groups, workshops and programmes being developed to encourage women into entrepreneurship.

One such platform is Ro’Ya, an initiative by the Dubai Business Women Council (DBWC) and MasterCard to, as they concisely put it, ‘empower and encourage budding female entrepreneurs in the UAE’.

Now in its second year, the inaugural programme in 2014 attracted women from across the Emirates to its series of workshops designed to advise, educate and inform participants as they start out on their journey to launch their own business.

Original article by Neil King

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Developing Dubai’s female entrepreneurs