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2007 » Issue May 23 » Women in Business

High-wire act

Marlene DeMarchi, co-owner of Aldo Los Altos restaurant, wife and mother of three, is grateful that women before her paved the way for women’s equality in business.

What she didn’t anticipate was how much she’d have to juggle to make it all work in her own life.

Leveling the playing field for women on the job

Women often claim they have a difficult time playing on the same field as men who seem to know the game. As I travel across the country, I hear the same song: Women find it difficult to infiltrate the “Good Old Boys Club” and gain positional power.

I am neither skeptical nor prejudiced about men in the workplace. I believe that gender inequities will shift and balance out in the long run. But men did enter the workplace long before women.

A leader in business, community

Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and craftsmanship, was, in essence, the prototype for the contemporary career woman.

So it’s fitting that Iris Harrell, CEO, president and co-owner of Harrell Remodeling Inc. in Mountain View, was named the recipient of the 16th annual Athena Award presented by Mountain View Women in Business and the Mountain View Chamber of Commerce. She was honored in March at a luncheon at Michaels at Shoreline.