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Although these female entrepreneurs serviced mostly female consumers, they were making great strides. Women gained the right to vote in 1920, and two years later, Clara and Lillian Westropp started the institution of Women's Savings & Loan as a way of teaching women how to be smart with their money. As society progressed, female entrepreneurs ...
With nearly 12 million women-owned businesses in the U.S., American women have built 10-figure net worths that represent not an inheritance but the fruits of their labor. They include one billion ...
Janice Bryant Howroyd (born September 1, 1952) is an entrepreneur, businesswoman, and author. She is founder and chief executive officer of The ActOne Group, [1] the largest privately held, minority-woman-owned personnel company founded in the U.S. [2] [3] Howroyd is the first African-American woman to build and own a billion dollar company.
Pages in category "American women company founders" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 377 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Madam C. J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove; December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919) was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist.She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records. [1]
American women company founders (377 P) Pages in category "American women founders" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 213 total.
She became an activist for higher wages and better working conditions for her fellow laborers. She is credited with coining the phrase “bread and roses” to explain that women workers needed “both economic sustenance and personal dignity,” according to Hasia Diner, a professor of American Jewish history at New York University.
In 1813, businessman Francis Cabot Lowell formed a company, the Boston Manufacturing Company, and built a textile mill next to the Charles River in Waltham, Massachusetts.. Unlike the earlier Rhode Island System, where only carding and spinning were done in a factory while the weaving was often put out to neighboring farms to be done by hand, the Waltham mill was the first integrated mill in ...