These three women run their own companies in male-dominated fields
Laura Suen , founder of Fire and Steel , which makes toy and real weaponry, says she still gets questions about who’s in charge, but she’s learned to brush off those slights., which designs, manufactures and sells toy and real weaponry such as swords and knives, perhaps at a Renaissance fair or comic con, they’ll usually talk to any guy at the booth first. Even if owner Laura Suen is standing right there.
It’s difficult to work in traditionally male fields. And while it’s challenging to start a business in such industries, it might be a bit easier to brush off certain annoyances, knowing you’re the boss. It helps when your business is doing well. Mississauga-based Fire and Steel does brisk consumer and B2B sales – including to movie companies and martial arts studios – has 15 employees and will soon move to a larger facility. There, Ms. Suen will add to her team as she moves more manufacturing in-house, working around supply chain challenges.
“I don’t know how the guys on the job site will take to you,” one interviewer told her. Another actually got up and left the interview and sent in a human resources person. With other companies, she got the feeling that as a woman, and a woman of colour, she was not welcome. “What we do is really scary,” she says of asbestos removal. “We’re doing hazardous work in customers’ homes. A man in the industry once said to me, ‘You have a huge advantage over me. They just hand their keys over to you because you’re a woman.’”
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