Argentina’s Maria del Roserio Margarita Liuzzi Seeks Opportunities for Women Entrepreneurs

By: Maria del Roserio Margarita Liuzzi

Delegate representing Argentina

In Argentina there is a lack of women in all occupations, including skilled trades and other non-traditional occupations – many of which are experiencing skills shortages. A skills shortage should be an opportunity for women to participate more fully not just in Argentina’s economy – but across the world. There are also many qualified and ambitious women who wish to enter the workforce on their own as entrepreneurs – I am one of them, and I have an idea.

By creating a program to offer loans with preferential interest rates to qualified entrepreneurial women along with training to help develop their business - I believe Argentina will directly benefit from their entrance into the world of small business.

This program will allow for more women to support one another, and to work directly with and under the guidance of successful financial institutions. Not only will this help the women enter the workforce, but also eventually create more and more jobs should their
businesses be successful.

In the long term, the women who benefit from the program can later offer mentoring to newer program participants, the beginning of a cycle of support. Let the empowerment movement begin.