Don't try to stop them

Whether inspired or frustrated by experiences, women are starting their businesses

An ocean separates Chupi Sweetman-Durney, who lives in Dublin, and Lea Giovanniello of Vienna, Virginia, and they have never met. Yet their workplace experiences and career paths — at a time when women still struggle with both — are a testament to what’s possible. Here are their stories.
 
Sweetman-Durney ran away from home when she was six. She wisely took along the duvet cover from her bed, her doll and a book. She found a nesting spot under a tree, about a half mile from her home in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland. While her parents tracked her down