Home featured Entrepreneur Featured Entrepreneur The top 5 Australian female entrepreneurs of 2019 Dahlia Jovic February 28, 2020 With International Women’s Day around the corner, we’ve rounded up some of the most notable Australian female entrepreneurs that spoke to Dynamic Business in 2019. We’re taking IWD as an opportunity to showcase some of the brilliant women that have seen exceptional success in the Australian small business landscape, taking on leadership roles across a variety of industries. International Women’s Day is built on the foundation that “an equal world is an enabled world.” The ideal world envisioned in the #IWD2020 campaign #EachforEqual is one in which all women enjoy equality, and one where their voices are heard far and wide. Although women’s rights and feminist movements are gaining traction regionally and globally, there is still a long way to go. The Global Gender Gap Report 2020 found that there are still substantial differences between men and women in areas of health, education, work and politics. Economic participation, in particular, has seen women struggle to receive wages, employment and workforce representation equal to their male counterparts. Australia as a nation ranked 8 th in the world for proportion of women-owned and -led businesses in the Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs. The Australian Government is also jumping on board the bid to empower women in the workplace, with the Boosting Female Founders (BFF) initiative set to launch in 2020. This initiative will provide $18 million in funding and support for women-owned and -led