Fiona Hudson-Kelly, author of ‘Grow and Sell your Startup', identifies some of the main issues which female entrepreneurs face in scaling their businesses and offers her perspective on how to overcome them.

In the UK women run around 29% of small businesses and just 1% of trade businesses. Interestingly, during the pandemic we saw increasing numbers of all-female-led businesses with 145,200 being incorporated in 2021 ? nearly three times the number in 2018.