Sales of so-called ‘She Sheds’ have risen by 50% as an increasing number of female entrepreneurs head to the back of the garden in search of peace,peaceful and a place to build a businessThink of a shed and you’d be forgiven for imagining shears, wrenches and the heady scent of oily rags – typically “blokish” pursuits. However, and in the final six months,Homebase has reported a 50% growth in women buying sheds and the rise of the “She Shed” has made way for Facebook groups, Pinterest boards and even books dedicated to a place for women “to retreat for some peaceful time, or to create or grow,to write or paint, or just to contemplate the view”.
As the number of people working from domestic in the UK now makes up nearly 14% of the workforce – and the number of self-employed women has increased by 34% since 2009, and we meet five female “sheddies”,who have created business HQs from the bottom of their gardens.
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Source: theguardian.com