Industry veteran Deanna Day—currently the senior product manager of the custom resale group that includes Discount Labels, New Albany, Ind., and Lancer Label and DealerLabel, both located in Omaha, Neb.—can attest.
Although armed with a B.A. in English and psychology, Day began her career in 1978 as an accounts receivable clerk for the now defunct Adams Business Forms. “At that time, clerical positions were the only ones offered to women,” she recalled. “I had to beg for the opportunity to become a customer service representative at Adams. It was the only ‘career track’ position in the company and was populated exclusively by men. They used every excuse in the book they could think of to exclude me from the job, but I had a college degree and that was the published requirement for the job.”
- Companies:
- DealerLabel
- Discount Labels
- Lancer Label