Women and Employment | United States

I like to show somebody how one item can be so many different things.

Cat Cass Costumer/Sutler I’m a costumer. I sell costumes at the Renaissance fairs and a number of other types of reenactments. I do a...

We have to create opportunities for ourselves because no one else is going to create them for us.

Sharniece Chantal Coupes + Pigment How I got into the business that I have now – which is the paint and sip events and doing mobile...

I love teaching patients how to wear contacts.

Jennifer Maxwell, ABOC Optician/Supervisor | Eye Care Center, Fullerton, CA I’ve been doing this for 30 years. I was a young mom, I had...

Sometimes it’s the stone that inspires the piece, sometimes it’s the piece that inspires the stone.

Claudia Endler Jewelry designer I’ve always had an interest in design: clothing, jewelry, shoes, handbags. My mother was very creative...

It takes a village to raise a child and a community.

Bettina Swigger CEO of Downtown SLO I am the CEO of Downtown SLO, which is the downtown business improvement area and we are a nonprofit...

If there’s something that I’m passionate about, it’s community. It’s connection.

Sara McGrath Family Resource Specialist at Parents Helping Parents I’ve done so many different things, and it’s all connected to life. It...

Being an appraiser is a combination of science, history, market research, and writing.

Where I began was in the mid-eighties, I was working in the jewelry industry in sales in Australia and my background was in opals.

I quit working for corporate America and I feel the happiest I’ve felt in my life.

I was 16 when I started to work and I went to retail, like Windsor Fashions and Wild Pair Shoes at The Block, Pier1 Imports, and then I went

People want to talk, they want to be heard.

Writing and food happened separately. I’d always communicated well through writing. But I never thought about it as a job.

There’s always a positive outcome for an animal that comes through our doors.

Erin Olsen Director of Operations, Kaua‘i Humane Society This was definitely not the career path that I had planned or knew that I would...

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