The Business of Diversity Women Execs Share Success Insights at Women Taking the Lead Event This event was part of the Chamber’s Women Taking the Lead series, an initiative of the U.S. Chamber convening and connecting high-level women leaders in government and business.By Rachel Ledbetter The...
Black Women in History—Civil War and ReconstructionOutlines the involvement of African American women in the American Civil War.HopkinsDeshaiesStrange
More to the point, astudyby the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the World Economic Forum, discovered that countries led by women had “systematically and significantly better” outcomes related to Covid-19. This was a result of “proactive and coordinated policy responses” that women spe...
Her first book, Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850–1954: An Intellectual History (2007), traces how Black women gained access to formal education in the United States. In her second book, Black Passports: Travel Memoirs as a Tool for Youth Empowerment (2014), Evans offers narratives of...
She recognizes the contribution of African American women like Ida B. Wells, Sadie Alexander and Mary Ellen Pleasants to African American history. She also acknowledges the role of some African American women in contemporary U.S. politics.Mal...
Beyoncé made history once again: Thesuperstar singerhas become the first Black woman to top Billboard’s country music chart. The Grammy winner achieved the feat after her new single “Texas Hold ‘Em” reached No. 1 on the country airplay chart this week. She dropped the song ...
Their widows -- Veronica, Linda, Alice and Belle -- have nothing in common except a debt left behind by their spouses' criminal activities. Hoping to forge a future on their own terms, Veronica joins forces with the other three women to pull off a heist that her husband was planning....
That same year, Dorothy discovered that her business handlers had swindled her out of $150,000, and that she was $139,000 in debt for back taxes. In the aftermath, Dorothy was forced to sell her Hollywood mansion, place her daughter in a state mental institution, and move into a small...
The world of business is not for the faint of heart, and statistics show almost four in ten businesses in major countries have no women in senior management positions. Despite the odds, history gives us a full account of African-American women who have taken the world of business ...
. Thompson was jailed in 1876 for “cross-dressing” and died later that year. But Gross and Berry note in their book that even though “behind bars, she suffered but [she] never lost her fight, answering rude questions about her gender by responding, ‘None of your d___ business’”...