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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 ...
The National Association of Women Business Owners helped to push Congress to pass the Women's Business Ownership Act in 1988, which would end discrimination in lending and also strike down laws that required married women to acquire their husband's signature for all loans. In addition, the Act also gave women-owned businesses a chance to ...
Margaret Abbott was the first American woman to win an Olympic event (women's golf tournament at the 1900 Paris Games); she was the first American woman, and the second woman overall to do it. [52] Carro Clark was the first American woman to establish, own and manage a book publishing firm (The C. M. Clark Company opened in Boston). [53] 1905
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 .
Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green (November 21, 1834 – July 3, 1916) [1] was an American businesswoman and financier known as "the richest woman in America" during the Gilded Age. Those who knew her well-referred to her admiringly as the " Queen of Wall Street " due to her willingness to lend freely and at reasonable interest rates to ...
From visionary entrepreneurs to corporate innovators, these dynamic female leaders rewrote the rules and reshaped industries. Long before Black Twitter […] The post 9 Black groundbreaking women ...
Anna May Wong a.k.a. Wong Liu Tsong. Wong was the first Chinese American movie star, both in Hollywood and internationally, and the first Asian American woman to receive a star on the Hollywood ...
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.