everywhere, and what'll happen is it'll show up to the school or their office or wherever. And the box gets opened and you know, Mary goes in there and gets large, and nobody knows that Mary got large. And then now, there's one shirt missing and it's a big, you know, Spanish Inquisition about it. And I think this is great because you're showing this is exactly what's in the box. And I love that. That's a good idea. Monica Maglaris A little bit of human touch is really important. You can argue kind of with technology and a computer, be like, well, that's a computer thing. When someone takes the time to fill that little thing in with, you know, with a Sharpie, it gives a little extra authenticity to it. That's kind of hard to mess with. It's a psychological thing. It works. Give it a try. Marshall Atkinson Yeah, you could also, like in the corner, put “Hand-counted” with initials. Monica Maglaris Exactly, exactly. Marshall Atkinson Cool. Right. So women-owned businesses only make up about 38% of the total small businesses in the US, and that's something I kind of want to dig into. And you're a certified women-owned business. So why do you think that number is so low? Do you have any thoughts on that? Monica Maglaris I think women in business isn't necessarily in its infancy, but it's still a somewhat younger concept in a historical context, just like women in the workforce in general work a big part of the populace until after World War II, right? So women in business only started kind of getting traction in the 80s and 90s so it's not at the beginning. It's kind of like in as many adolescents, so it's a trajectory that's been moving forward. But I think that fundamentally, I would say that is perhaps the reason for it. Would it be the same reason why it took a while for women to go up into the workplace as well because you still have those gender roles where women were expected? There were certain things that women were expected to do and be, and you know, they had to integrate themselves into the workplace and the same thing is happening then in corporate America. And then now as entrepreneurs. That integration is happening. And I, as much as maybe I'd like to see it speed up a bit, I think that things sort of natural sort of evolving. And I think
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