When Monica McCarthy Clark took over at Glades Gas of Okeechobee,Fla.,in 1987,she knew she faced an uphill battle as a woman in the propane industry.She had been rising through the high-pressure corporate ranks of Xerox,and she was confident she could switch careers and succeed in operating her family's propane business.But that confidence was not universal."When I came in to work here,I had a driver who walked in the door and said,'I ain't working for no woman,'"Clark remembers."He just refused."
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