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Starting up a business in later life
As the retirement age is pushed back for both men and women, many more people are looking to set up their own businesses in their sixties and beyond. But what are the challenges for older women becoming entrepreneurs? Christine Brown has experienced them first hand: at the age of 64, she started a wool shop in her local city of Ely. Dr Dianne Bown-Wilson, a visiting fellow at Cranfield School of Management, has studied later life working and been a mentor for small businesses.
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Entrepreneurs, equality, rights and wrongs, and real life case studies.
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