ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst

Can Women Be Businessmen?

Nikki Mandell, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater

9:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Diversity as a Business Strategy (Or How Liberal Feminism Saved American Capitalism in the Late 20th Century)

Susan Yohn, Hofstra University

9:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Fashioning a Marketing Magnet: Tillie Lewis and the Tillie Lewis Food Company, 1940s-1970s

Edie E. Sparks, University of the Pacific

9:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Mary Kay Ash and the Business of Identity

Katina Manko, Bard College

9:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Re-imagining the Family Farm: New Roles and Old Limitations for Women in Industrial Agriculture

Elizabeth K. Brake, Duke University

9:30 AM - 12:00 PM

The Business of Investing: the Public Stock Portfolios of Female Investors in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Amy M. Froide, UMBC

9:30 AM - 12:00 PM

The Invisible Hand and the Velvet Glove: Women’s Departments in American Banks

Nancy M. Robertson, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis

9:30 AM - 12:00 PM

The Powers and Limitations of Equal Opportunity Laws

Pamela W. Laird, University of Colorado Denver

9:30 AM - 12:00 PM

'To Well and Truly Administer': Female Administrators and Estate Settlement in Eighteenth-Century Newport, RI

Sara Damiano, Johns Hopkins University

9:30 AM

(Un)Equal Opportunity? The Paradox of Equal Opportunity in the Cold War Military

Tanya L. Roth, Washington University in St. Louis

9:30 AM - 12:00 PM