2024-02-13 14:09:58
She does not claim “feminist”. However, Isabelle Lecomte leads a daily battle to allow women to find their place in the very masculine world of the economy.
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President of the Women Business Leaders (FCE) network in Ille-et-Vilaine since last January, the fifty-year-old is part of a minority: those representatives of the fairer sex who run a company. Or 22% of the total Bretillian leaders.
“We are making progress, but it is still little, concedes the original Parisian, who arrived in Rennes in 1988. Obstacles of different kinds remain. »
The mental burden of family life, for example, at a time when women are still the ones who do the most domestic chores.
Taken from above, or not seriously
Financial obstacles, too, are still on the agenda in 2024. “A woman who presents the same project as a man to a bank will have much more difficulty than him in obtaining a loan. »
Taken down or not taken seriously, women end up telling themselves that entrepreneurship is not for them. “I myself had not had the idea of starting my own business until I saw someone else doing it”says the infographic designer, whose enthusiasm is intact, fifteen years later.
“Being an entrepreneur is so great! » At the head of Amazone concept, specializing in the creation of printed graphic materials (flyers, leaflets, business cards, etc.), the Rennaise has many hats. For more than ten years, she has been part of the “sponsorship” club of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) 35.
There, female managers support aspiring entrepreneurs. “Without judgment or prejudice, speaking the same language. » Female mutual aid, which in no way aims to “exclude men”.
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