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Article: Women's work: womens have come a long way in the kitchen and bath industry in the last few decades, changing it from the inside out.
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- Kitchen & Bath Design News
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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Back in the not-so-good-old days of being a woman in the kitchen and the bath industry, Julie Koch, owner of Elegant Additions, in Houston, TX, was called upon to fix a malfunctioning set of door hardware.
"Everybody was upset. The installer said it was a piece of garbage. I go running over there," Koch recalls. "An older man greets me at the door, doesn't even say hello. I say, 'I'm here to look at the hardware.' He looks me up, looks me down, says, 'yeah.'
"The man points out the miscreant hardware with nary another word. I fix the lock, do exactly what I told him to do over the phone, put it back in the door. This entire time he's staring at me like ...