Empowering all women and girls and achieving gender equality are not only moral imperatives, they are crucial to creating inclusive, open and prosperous societies. Yet the barriers to doing so by 2030, as targeted by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 5 are daunting.

The search for enhanced ways of addressing and funding this issue has inspired this British Council report, Activist to Entrepreneur: The Role of Social Enterprise in Supporting Women’s Empowerment in the UK.

How are UK social enterprises addressing gender inequality? And to what extent are women’s organisations in the UK establishing their own social businesses to support their work? These are just two of the questions addressed in this British Council report which explores enhanced ways of addressing and funding women’s empowerment and gender equality.