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UNF launches empowerment program for female business students

Professor Leslie Gordon, who directs the University of North Florida's Women in Business empowerment program, meets with members. From left are Madison Beckford, Brianna Eisman, Kate Los and Mary Joy DiMarco.
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Professor Leslie Gordon, who directs the University of North Florida's Women in Business empowerment program, meets with members. From left are Madison Beckford, Brianna Eisman, Kate Los and Mary Joy DiMarco.

When Mary Joy DiMarco arrived at the University of North Florida, she majored in computer science. But as a woman in male-dominated classes, she didn't feel her ideas were valued.

"I was very uncomfortable," she said.

DiMarco later switched to business management and joined a new UNF student organization called Women in Business designed to empower female business students by providing mentorship, community connections and career advancement opportunities, among other things.

Read the rest of this story at WJCT News partner The Florida Times-Union.