Women in Kind

LET’S BE HONEST, MEN AND WOMEN aren’t the same. They have different needs, priorities, and work styles. Women face their own professional, social, cultural and economic issues. Add family challenges to the mix and it gets even more complicated.

So entrepreneurs Virginia Santy and Melanie Ulle imagined the perfect office space for women. “We asked ourselves what it would look like to create a workplace designed for women from the ground up,” Santy says. “What are some of the things we would have to consider given social and professional expectations of women in the workplace and the home? How can we support women and build systems of support into a workplace rather than asking women to figure it all out on their own?”

The two dreamed of working in a space that was warm (literally, why are men’s offices always freezing cold?), safe, professional, fostered collaboration, and could accommodate the many roles that women fill every

day, including raising children. Their dreams became reality when Women in Kind opened its doors in August.

By Kimberly Field