Businesswomen in Hays County say they face less challenges in starting their own businesses than in the past.

Women in previous decades faced major hurdles in business, but Kyle and Buda have seen a wave of female-owned businesses opening up shop in the area.

“Some people still have the idea that men are breadwinners, that kind of thing. I think that’s a stigma in our culture, but it doesn’t have to be.”

–Ashley Chandler,  owner of a Buda-area yoga studio

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