Breaking Barriers: Empowering Women in Business

For the 11th consecutive year, women remain underrepresented at every level of the corporate pipeline—especially in senior leadership, where they make up just 29 percent of C-suite roles, unchanged from 2024 (LeanIn.org and McKinsey 2025 study). Despite people of all genders wanting an inclusive and respectful workplace, women in business are still facing hurdles that their male counterparts are not: wage gap, funding access, structural barriers, and more. Linda Lucas, Toledo Library Small Business and Nonprofit specialist, and Lisa Halsey, business owner and coordinator of the NWO Business Mentoring Program, will join us for this discussion on Women in Business.

Join us on Thursday, May 21 at 6:30 p.m. at the Heatherdowns Branch to discuss the status of women in business, including women-owned and operated business, the wage gap, structural barriers, and more.