Around 100,000 UK women are starting a business each year.Last year saw UK women overtake men starting businesses in London, East Midlands and Yorkshire.
By 2020, female millionaires will outnumber male millionaires in the UK at 53%

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There's a very good reason female millionaires will out number male ones. Half of them will get their money from a divorce settlement or by being widowed!

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Lawrence

Women will overtake men just you wait and see! And we don'tneed no divorce settlements either

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Tell that to Heather Mills and Ivana! I could compile quite an extensive list of women who have become wealthy through divorce but if you were to try the same for men you'd struggle to list a fraction of the number of women I could name.

Unlike women, men don't tend to marry for money.

*Ducks and runs*

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JK rowling
Paloma Picasso
Ann Gloag - cp founder of the stagecoach company
Josephine Carpenter - Juice company
Julie Hester - Property Search Group
and go here http://www.fmwf.com/nonavarticle.php?id=106&cat=23 for the list from 2004, bear in mind we are now nearing 2008 so I imagine that list will have increased dramtically

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Don't worry Lawrence, as soon as they make their first million they will quickly spend it on shoes

**ducks under flame proof blanket**

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LOL

I can't argue with JK Rowling who is without a doubt a self made person and an inspiration to many (if you can write) but Paloma Picasso is the daughter of Pablo (I'm sure you may have heard of him ). I'm not sure how much money she inherited/was given by her father but she without a doubt benefits from his name and despite being married still uses it to further her career.

I hadn't heard of Gloag before, so I Googled her

Gloag founded bus company "Gloagtrotter" in October 1980 with her brother, Brian Souter and her then-husband, Robin Gloag. Some £25,000 of her father's severance money was used to purchase two small buses.

So she used her father's money and ran the business with her brother (who by all accounts was the real business brains behind the business) and her husband who has since divorced her and set up his own coach company. She also only has a non executive role in Stagecoach. From Wikipedia "Despite being co-founder of Stagecoach, Ms Gloag no longer has an executive role in the company."

*Joins openmind under the flameproof blanket*

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So - um - what do men marry for - besides saving on wages for a:
Housekeeper
Cook
Skivvy
Nanny
Chauffeur
Seamstress
Laundrymaid
Nurse
(thinks, what was the other.... Oh yes!)
Sex that doesn't have to paid for...

Kate

Having someone there we can always wind up

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I doubt there are many wealthy men who marry for a housekeeper, cook, skivvy, nanny, chauffeur, seamstress, laundrymaid or a nurse as they will already have professionals to do all this for them.

I think you may find that some women marry wealthy men to receive those benefits though! Can you really picture Ivana ever being a laundrymaid?

As for the "Sex that doesn't have to paid for", errmm, well, errmmm, you may have a point with that one.

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There was an interesting article in my local newspaper tonight about women in business. Some politocamn was opening a new business centre and he stated they are very keen on targeting enterprising women, seems female business women starting out are increasing and taking over men.
You see guys women can multitask, thats why we get the job done.
And we can multitask in all areas

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Why not just buy yourself a Furby? Since they work on batteries you won't even need to wind. :-)

Kate

My kids had one of them when they were younger, the number of times I came close to putting the damn thing in the microwave....

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Tsk, tsk, cruelty to poor Furbys........"feed me, feed me.... :-)

Kate

I remember when th efurby was top of my daughters xmas list.They were sold out everywhere.I was sitting at work when a aclleague got a phone call form his mate who worked in Argos.He was telling him they had just had a delivery.I worlke dround the corner so legged it to the shop! Those were the days, now she wants a laptop
I alo have my name down on every waiting list you can think of for the even harder to get nintendo Wii

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I was looking for Furbys a couple of years ago then, like you, snagged one at Argos. If you look on ebay US listings though, the number of 'collector' Furbys is amazing, I was falling in love with the things myself. :-)

Kate

Am I the only person who'd never heard of a Furby? From Kate's previous post I assumed it was a male "self pleasuring" device so I Googled it to see what she was talking about

That's the advantage of having no kids, you don't have to deal with the mass marketing nonsense that's targeted at them or the guilt of not getting sucked in to spending a fortune to keep them happy.

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You possibly are the only person on the planet to have thought a furby was a toy of that kind Lawrence

......hang on, thinking about what human nature is maybe you're not

Take it a step further, Dippy, and try to come up with one of those gadgets Laurence had in mind that might have been given the name 'Furby'... The mind boggles...

Kate

I will never look at my daughters furby in quite the same way now
It is still sitting on the shelf, ear is hanging off it now!
Barbie are notrious for doing this too, limiting supplies. I remember hunting high and low one year for barbir, ken and the carriage and horse.I managed to find everything except the poor ken barbie doll.She got a note from santa instead saying the pixie who was making ken was poorly with the flu and would it be ok if he sent after xmas when he was feeling a bit better, oh the things you have to do!

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