Boss lady

By Edith Sparks

Subjects: Businesswomen, History, Women-owned business enterprises, Biography, Businesswomen, biography, Women executives, Business enterprises, united states

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"--