Thursday, March 11, 1999
Women's progress in business traced at awards ceremony
BY AMY HIGGINS
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Women are changing the face of business — literally and figuratively, Sharon G. Hadary told attendees at Leading Women's fifth annual Celebration of Women luncheon on Wednesday.
About 700 attended the program, which featured Ms. Hadary, executive director of the National Foundation for Women Business Owners.
Consider: 8.5 million American businesses are owned by women; women-owned businesses employ one in four company employees; and women-owned businesses contribute $3 trillion to the U.S. economy.
But Ms. Hadary, whose organization is an independent, non-profit research institute studying women who own businesses, said women in the 1990s are still trying to determine what their priorities should be and learning how to define success.
She said men and women define success differently.
“Men and women are different in their thinking, problem-solving and leadership styles,” she said. “Women have a more complex decision-making style that includes both relationship building and facts.”
In the end, business leaders should take a cue from both sexes and learn to use multiple styles, she said.
“There is a tremendous strength in combining left- and right-brain thinking,” Ms. Hadary said. “There is tremendous strength in building relationships and benefiting from facts.”
Leading Women, a consortium of more than 40 women's organizations in Greater Cincinnati, honored 20 women for contributions in their fields and awarded three college scholarships to high school juniors.
Award winners included: Kathy Wade, singer and founder of Learning Through Art; Francie Pepper, chairwoman of the YWCA Capital Campaign; Melanie Bates, Ohio Board of Education; Angelita M. Jones, CEO of Eastern Personnel Services Inc.; Marilyn Osborn, CEO of Osborn & Kelly Inc.; M. Julie Hanser, president and CEO of Mercy Health Systems and senior vice president of Catholic Healthcare Partners; and Denise Davis, principal in Davis Medical Group Inc.
Also honored were: Margaret Lawson, partner of Taft Stettinius & Hollister; Linda Noble, senior vice president of human resources at Comair Inc.; Gladys Hankins, senior manager of corporate purchases at Procter & Gamble Co.; Tammy Tierney Allison, president and publisher of the Business Courier; Debra A. Behler, executive secretary to the vice president of customer business development at Procter & Gamble Co.; Diane C. Goldsmith, precinct executive for the Hamilton County Republican Party; and Jenny C. Laster, president and CEO of Massey Enterprises.
Other winners were: Judy Kroger, president of The Human Touch; Jean Kumler, member of Electrical Workers Local 212; Julie Isphording, assistant vice president and marketing director at Huntington National Bank; Cheryll A. Dunn, interim executive associate dean and associate dean for college development at the University of Cincinnati's College of Applied Science; Dianne Dunkelman, founder of Speaking of Women's Health; and Maureen Frances Wood, executive director of Women's Research and Development Center.
Leading Women awarded scholarships to Jennifer Simons and Kristin Huff, who attend Holmes High School, Covington; and Anjali D'Souza, Walnut Hills High School.
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