Libby Hill noticed a pattern in the way she was treated by men when she was setting up operations at her Mentor business, Family Karate, in 2005.
“Interviews with different copier suppliers were the most amusing,” recalls the Painesville resident. “First, there was a salesman who brought along a female associate. It may have been to double-team me, but it came off as ‘See, we like women.’ Another copier salesman kept wondering where my husband was. The third seemed at a total loss because he felt he couldn’t tell off-color jokes.” Since then, the master black belt has built up a clientele of 115, but still experiences some flak as a woman business owner.

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