Posts Tagged ‘women entrepreneurs’
Selling Opportunity: A Q & A with Mary Lisa Gavenas
As those of you who have been hanging out here in the Margins know, I’ve been spending time over the last year thinking about women entrepreneurs. One of the most interesting things I’ve read on the subject is a new book by journalist Mary Lisa Gavenas: Selling Opportunity: the Story of Mary Kay. I am…
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Lydia Pinkham: Women’s Health Entrepreneur
I recently spent a week in Maine, visiting my BFF from graduate school. We indulged in history nerdery. We binge-watched Ride or Die on Netflix.[1] We ate great food. And we talked about the ideas that are driving me these days: women artists, women entrepreneurs, and what a young woman from the Midwest would have…
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Lillian Moller Gilbreth Designed My Kitchen
Those of you who know me in real life know that I am what the late great Peg Bracken[1] dubbed a “good cook who likes to.” Over the years, I’ve cooked in many different kitchens, each of which had its own problems. When My Own True Love and I moved into our current house, I…
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