“When the eleventh edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was published on 6 October 2011 the word ‘mumpreneur’ was listed for the first time. ‘Mumpreneur’. It’s right up there as one of the business buzzwords I simply loathe.
Like many women, I am a mother and I run my own business. The flexibility it’s given me over the past 13 years has worked well for us as a family. Never at any point have I felt the need to combine my work title with my life as a mum. It’s not relevant. My husband, who has been self-employed almost his entire working life, has never felt the need to combine his job title with the fact that he has two children either. If ‘mumpreneur’ is valid, why don’t we use ‘dadpreneur’ as well? We know why – because it’s derogatory, infantilising and utterly pointless.
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