germany's association of women entrepreneurs or v.d.u. has been supporting female bosses and women in the business world for more than sixty years the group promotes female entrepreneurship and lobbies for better conditions for business women at the moment the v.d.u. represents about one thousand eight hundred mainly medium sized companies led by women in areas such as manufacturing and crafts trade and in the service sector together with their companies these women generate eighty five billion euros in sales and employ a lot of people about five hundred thousand video association members are in hamburg for their annual get together on the agenda expanding international opportunities and strengthening networks to raise the profile of female lead business w.'s business correspondent chiodos went to hamburg to cover the event which presents many different ideas to empower female lead businesses earlier i asked what the conference is focusing on. yes as you said the problems are many fold but what they're actually focusing on right now is su

germany is association of women entrepreneurs also called the v.d.u. has been supporting female bosses and women in the business world for more than sixty years the group promotes female entrepreneurship and lobbies for better conditions for business women at the moment the v.d.u. represents more than one thousand eight hundred mainly medium sized firms that are led by women in areas such as manufacturing and crafts trade and the service sector together with their companies these women generate eighty five billion euros in sales and employ about five hundred thousand people in the u.s. o.c. asian members are in hamburg for their annual get together on the agenda expanding international opportunities and strengthening networks to raise the profile of female lead businesses. and our correspondent is at the conference in hamburg covering it for us tio hi it's really nice to see you know let's start with the topic of the conference on the focus because of course it's a very complex problem the gap between male and female entrepreneurs and how it can be clo

business world because it is not easy for them now the german association of women entrepreneurs their v.d.u. has been supporting female bosses and women in the business world for more than sixty years the group promotes female entrepreneurship and lobbies for better conditions for business women at the moment the video represents more than one thousand eight hundred mainly medium sized companies that are led by women in areas such as manufacturing and crafts trade and in the service sector together with their companies these women generate eighty five billion euros in sales and employ a lot of people about five hundred thousand people to be exact the video association members are in hamburg for their annual get together on the agenda at this meeting is expanding international opportunities and strengthening networks to raise the profile of female lead business. w.'s business correspondent keeled over went to hamburg to cover the event which presents many different ideas to empower female lead businesses earlier i asked what the conferences focusing. yes as you said the problems are many fol