Boss lady
Subtitle: how three women entrepreneurs built successful big businesses in the mid-twentieth century
By: Edith Sparks
Series: The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, entrepreneurship, and public policy; Luther H. Hodges, Jr. and Luther H. Hodges, Sr. series on business, entrepreneurship, and public policy
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781469633015; 9781469633022
Subjects: Women-owned business enterprises; History; Businesswomen; Biography; Women executives
Description: " ... The careers of three pioneering businesswomen--Tillie Lewis (founder of Flotill Products), Olive Ann Beech (cofounder of Beech Aircraft), and Margaret Rudkin (founder of Pepperidge Farm)--who started their own manufacturing companies in the 1930s, sold them to major corporations in the 1960s and 1970s, and became members of their corporate boards"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Constructing entrepreneurial pathways; title: Government and women's business ownership; title: Labor-management relations; title: Gender as brand management; title: Asserting self-worth.