Boss Lady: How Three Women Entrepreneurs Built Successful Big Businesses in the Mid-Twentieth Century

by Edith Sparks

Book Overview

Too often, depictions of women's rise in corporate America leave out the first generation of breakthrough women entrepreneurs. Here, Edith Sparks restores 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469633027
• ISBN13: 9781469633022
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"