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The National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs was founded on July 16, 1919, at a meeting led by Lena Madesin Phillips of Kentucky. In the 1930s, it became a charter member of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women. BPW/USA became the first organization created to focus on the issues of working women.
National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, founded in 1919, at a meeting led by Lena Madesin Phillips of Kentucky. In the 1930s it became a charter member of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women. National Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild, founded by 1895 (was this a women's organization?)
The International Federation of Business and Professional Women was founded in Geneva, Switzerland, on August 26, 1930, by Dr. Lena Madesin Phillips of Kentucky. As President of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs in the United States, Phillips had organized several trips to Europe in 1928 and 1929 to network with business and professional women in Europe.
Lena Madesin Phillips (September 15, 1881 – May 22, 1955) was a lawyer and clubwoman from Nicholasville, Kentucky, who founded the National Business and Professional Women's Clubs in 1919. She enlarged her circle, traveling also to Europe, and in 1930 she founded the International Federation of Business and Professional Women. Phillips served ...
International Federation of Business and Professional Women – founded 1930, network for professional women; International Federation of Women Lawyers – founded 1944, enhances the status of women and children by providing legal aid, legal literacy and education programs, and through advocacy, law reform, research and publications [1]
With a high growth in the number of women small-business owners between 2012 and 2020 (22%) and a high employment rate among women (60%), Utah is a great place for women small-business owners to ...
In 1919, Laughlin traveled to St. Louis, Missouri, to attend the first convention of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs of which she was a co-founder. [2] [3] The purpose of this meeting was to unite women and focus on the inequalities women face in the workforce. [3] At the convention Laughlin gave the opening ...
The National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) is an organization in the United States founded in 1975 that has the purpose of networking the approximately 10.6 million women-owned businesses so as to provide mutual support, share resources, and provide a single voice to help shape economic and public policy.