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This chapter examines African women in the Atlantic slave trade, exploring what scholars know about their experiences in the trade and highlighting what remains to be known. From the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, millions of Africans were transported across the Atlantic Ocean. Women made up ...
Against this backdrop, marketplaces occupy a central place in the “affective economy” (Ahmed, 2004) of the war on terror for which women and the public spaces associated with them were a major front. I analyses affective dimensions of women’s marketplaces in one major front of the war ...
We explore the challenges women technology entrepreneurs face in South Africa and the role of institutions and societies in contributing to and overcoming these challenges through the lens of Institutional theory. Focusing on IT as a masculine-labelled niche and women as a minority, this study evalua...
Among her remarkable career achievements is her creation of a solution for busy professionals & entrepreneurs to manage & integrate their work-life & business. Using insights from her book “PARENT ORGANIZER”, several people have been able to set goals, deal with emoti...
Women in Wyoming are starting businesses and overseeing a high percentage of the state’s employees. Meanwhile, Chicago’s healthy, capital-rich startup scene appears to be paying dividends to female entrepreneurs in Illinois. The Northeast is absent from the Top 10 this year. New York, Vermont...
18. Central heating While the revolutionary central heating design of Alice Parker in 1919 was never used, it was the first one to use natural gas for heating a house instead of wood. Before Parker’s invention, most families would use wood or coal to heat their homes in fireplaces t...
A few years ago, Mary and her husband Brian were high-powered Silicon Valley lawyers/entrepreneurs who traded it all away to live the Carhartt way of life. Armed with a strong work ethic and the fearlessness to ask lots of questions, the couple and their four daughters who all share the...
investment banker at Baird, Jefferies, and Goldman Sachs. Ryan continues to advise venture funds and entrepreneurs in addition to remaining passionate about advancing human healthcare. She received her Master of Business Administration from Columbia University and her Bachelor of Arts from Georgetown ...
investment banker at Baird, Jefferies, and Goldman Sachs. Ryan continues to advise venture funds and entrepreneurs in addition to remaining passionate about advancing human healthcare. She received her Master of Business Administration from Columbia University and her Bachelor of Arts from Georgetown ...