We have launched a new tough-talking Evening Press e-Forum for business debate.
Beam into the business section of this website for Straight From The Shoulder.
It is your chance to be jarred or soothed by the no-punches-pulled views of the movers and shakers of the business world in York and North and East Yorkshire.
Straight From The Shoulder is the forum to get YOUR controversial business views on the record and, if necessary, in the faces, of tens of thousands of our website viewers.
The first big issue into which the Shoulder barges is the poor uptake of women in business, a fact causing huge concern at Yorkshire Forward, the regional development agency, which is conducting detailed research into how to address the challenges.
The same dilemma besets Business Links and, of course, women's professional organisations.
Di Burton, the nationally-known managing director of Cicada Public Relations, Harrogate, flays many of her own gender for whining about the hurdles, for crying, but not trying.
It's a debate you cannot miss.
Updated: 10:42 Tuesday, February 18, 2003
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