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InnoEnergy is hosting The Business Booster ( TBB ) between 3 – 4 October in Paris . This year ’ s theme will be humanising the energy transition , and there will be sessions looking at how diversity in energy can spur innovation
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Bou also highlights the importance of getting women into the energy industry in the first place . “ It is believed there are less women working within the energy industry as fewer women are engineers . If those working in the social sciences , of which there are more women , could also be a part of the energy transition , this would help fix that problem ,” adds Bou . She has noticed more awareness regarding the gender gap , but real change is taking longer than expected . For example , in 2008 , despite women accounting for around 50 % of the population , female entrepreneurs in Europe sat at about 30 %, with even fewer in the sustainable energy sector at approximately 7 %. By 2012 , the sustainable energy figure hit 11 %. For InnoEnergy , around 13 % of its supported startups have female founders . “ If we consider that in Europe more than 40 % of employees are female but between 5 % and 6 % occupy senior position , then it is clear that we are making progress but the trend is moving very slowly ,” she claims .
Bou argues that younger women need to see established and mature women
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