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Keynote: WBDC founder recounts barriers women faced and the law that helped open capital
Summary
WBDC founder Fran Pastore told attendees how the Women's Business Ownership Act of 1988 and creation of national women's business resources opened access to capital and technical supports for women entrepreneurs; she also shared her personal path from single mother to nonprofit founder.
Fran Pastore, founder and CEO of the Women's Business Development Council, delivered a keynote tracing the modern women's entrepreneurship movement and the federal policies that changed access to capital.
Pastore recounted being a single, unemployed mother in the mid-1990s and the lack of local support for women entrepreneurs at the time. She said that research…
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