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Article: Anchorage chamber programs benefit and honor women: the ATHENA Award's luncheon will be held this month, and will honor a woman for achievement and excellence in business.
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- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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A cross America, nearly half of all privately held firms are owned by women--48 percent, according to the Center for Women's Business Research in Washington, D.C. The center also estimated that in 2004 there were 36,404 privately held, women-owned (50 percent or more) firms in Alaska, accounting for nearly 60 percent of all privately held firms in the state.
In Anchorage, many of those women and men who succeed in business are passing on their legacy of leadership and excellence to those who will follow them through the ATHENA Society, a program of the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce. The Anchorage chapter of a national ATHENA Society was formed in 1988 under the ...