Downers Grove South Students Partner to Promote Women's Entrepreneurship
Several local women business owners met with South High students Wednesday during the school's first ever Women's Entrepreneurship Vendor Show.
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Downers Grove South Students Partner to Promote Women's Entrepreneurship
Several local women business owners met with South High students Wednesday during the school's first ever Women's Entrepreneurship Vendor Show.
A small group of local women entrepreneurs gathered at Downers Grove South High School on Wednesday to network with students and discuss ways to bridge the gender gap in the business world. The event—a vendor show to promote women's entrepreneurship—was conceived by South High seniors Maddie Kuerschner and Jackie Clifford as part of a state competition for DECA, an organization that prepares student leaders for careers and education in marketing, finance and other business area. Of the nearly 180 DECA members at South High, only 40 are female. The number was so striking to Kuerschner and Clifford that they decided to make it the focus their state research paper. "Women are still very much a minority in the business world, even though there…
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Jeff Tandy
9:25 am on Thursday, January 31, 2013
Maddie, I don't think Raphael was criticizing your program, and he did start of by saying that he respected what you and the organizers are doing. I happen to agree with some of his general observations that the media is doing a continued disservice to men and women by perpetuating the notion that women are in a perpetual need of boosting. Your program seemed to be narrowly focused on the goal of… more ›