The message rang loud and clear: Women broke the glass ceiling, now break the glass walls.
Priscilla Taylor, PB County Commissioner, was the keynote speaker at the first summit for women entrepreneurs on the Boca Raton campus of Palm Beach State College. Boca City Councilwoman Constance Scott and Lake Worth Commissioner Suzanne Mulvehill signed on as Growth Acceleration consultants.
The March 23 event was the kickoff of the new monthly Women Entrepreneurs Networking with speakers at 8:30 to 10 a.m. every last Tuesday of the month starting in April at the college's Center for Business and Entrepreneurship.
"Once the workplace opened up to American women, things have never been the same," said Palm Beach County Commissioner Priscilla Taylor, the keynote speaker. "We are the engine for growth and we're catching up. Women-owned businesses are growing at twice the rate. More than 40 percent of micro loans are going to women."
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