Welcome to the Broad Experience, the show about women, the workplace and success.

I'm Ashley Milne Tite.

This time on the show, traditionally it's been men who follow their fathers into a family business,

but more and more daughters are taking this route.

I wanted to look into what kinds of challenges they face that their brothers don't.

For one thing, what happens when you are your brother's boss?

My feeling is that they really wouldn't want to report to me.

I've never actually asked them, and my father has never told them that they should report to the president.

We still didn't think about it as a possible career, and her dad wasn't trying to pull her

on board. But a few years after graduating, she was working for another company as a personnel

manager, as they called them in those days, and one day she got a call.

I knew our controller at the family company, and she was somewhat difficult to work for,

and she reached out to me to ask if I wanted to be her assistant, and so I came to work for her.

She made the offer. My dad did not make the offer.

So Marty started working at her dad's company as assistant controller, but not long after she'd been hired, Marty's boss,

who she said was a brilliant woman, way ahead of her time, she got sick. She smoked three packs a day.

It was the 70s after all. It turned out she had lung cancer. She died soon afterwards.

Marty took over her role and the company became her career. In 2000, she became president. To this day, the firm is very much a family affair.

My dad is still the CEO, and then I have two brothers who have been involved with the business, and we're all the Sibs and the family.

Her father is now in his mid-80s, and he lives in Florida most of the year.

Marty runs things, which sounds pretty good, and it is.

But there are certain things that keep niggling at her, even after all her years with the company.

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