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The '''First Women''' awards programme was created by Real business 2005 in United Kingdom.
First Women was supported by the Confederation of British Industry. Henrietta Jowitt, Deputy Director-General, Commercial at the CBI gave the keynote speech at the 2016 First Woman Awards.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.cbi.org.uk/news/first-woman-awards/|title=Henrietta Jowitt keynote speech at First Women Awards 2016}}</ref>
The First Women Young Achiever Award was celebrated by Emma Hagan, chief risk officer at Silicon Valley Bank, aged 24, and Amanda White, who headed up the HS3 rail project.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://realbusiness.co.uk/article/30535-the-young-female-achiever-changing-the-face-of-transport-and-engineering|title=The young female achiever changing the face of transport and engineering}}</ref>
Jan Flawn CBE was the first Woman of business services who launched her business at the age of 50<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2013/aug/16/five-minutes-chair-pj-care-jan-flawn|title=Five minutes with ... Jan Flawn, nurse turned chair of PJ Care Ltd|website=TheGuardian.com |date=16 August 2013 }}</ref> after raising her children, uses her First Women platform to advocate for women across the country.
==Charity== First Women has partnered with Keep a Girl in School Project<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kagis.org|title=Keep a Girl in School}}</ref> to create awareness and help towards promoting education for girls in Uganda and The Washroom Project<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fundrazr.com/918S9e|title=The Washroom Project}}</ref> to raise funds that will support the education of at least 500 girls.
==See also== * List of women's firsts
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [https://firstwomen.co.uk Official website]
Category:Awards established in 2005