Polish women become more entrepreneurial - report

Over two-thirds of women who decide to launch their own company worked at another company or institution immediately before, while only every eigth women was on materinity leave and merely 6 percent of women polled had no job or worked odd jobs, according to the results of a survey carried out by research center DELab UW and ordered by the Women's Entrepreneurship Foundation (FPK). The biggest motivation for women launching their business was the need to "go it alone" after having acummulated the necessary experience - 42 percent of women stated that reason for establishing their own company. Over a third (37 percent) of women claimed they had acheived all they could and wanted in their previous workplace.