Cedar City group promotes women in business.

AuthorMadison, Rachel
PositionSOUTHERN

Cedar City -- For more than 50 years. a Cedar City group has provided support, education and scholarships to women in the Iron County business world.

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The group, called CEDAR CITY WOMEN IN BUSINESS, is an arm of the CEDAR CITY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Deniece Allred, executive director of the group for the last three years, says the organization's mission is to provide business and professional women in Iron County with a venue for networking. education and community involvement.

Although she doesn't know much about the organization's history, Allred does have a scrapbook from the 1950s with pictures of social events the group attended.

"I think women formed this organization back then because they weren't allowed to do things in business," she says. "Although it looks like it was more of a social thing back then, it has really evolved over the years."

Currently, there are about 30 active members of the group, but more than 80 women have signed up through their chamber membership, which is a requirement to be a part of the group.

The organization hosts a monthly luncheon with a different guest speaker each time. Topics range across all areas of business. "The women in our organization are professional women," Allred says. "Our goal is that women feel connected in a man's world. They can bring their strengths to the organization and help strengthen their weaknesses through help from other women."

Allred said just because Cedar City and Iron County are considered rural areas, it doesn't mean the business women are any less professional.

"Just because we live in a rural environment doesn't mean we can show up not prepared and not...

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