As many thousands of Americans travel to the nation’s capital this weekend to express their support for women’s rights at the Women’s March on Washington, we salute the valuable contributions women …
Women in Business
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Jan Crouch, the religious broadcaster and co-founder of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, died May 31 following a massive stroke. She was 78. The Crouch family released a statement on the …
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Lillian Vernon, the businesswoman who founded the mail-order catalog company that bears her name, has died. She was 88. Vernon, whose corporation was the first company founded by a woman …
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She was perhaps the most powerful woman ever to work in Hollywood, with a hand in all aspects of movie making and a worldwide fame to rival that of any …
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She shaped a generation’s standards of beauty.
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There was a time when everyone loved Lucy. Lucille Ball, who starred as a dizzy housewife with dreams of stardom in the groundbreaking sitcom “I Love Lucy,” was the “queen …
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Entrepreneur Bette Nesmith Graham invented Liquid Paper, a product that improved the work lives of millions of women…
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Coco Chanel died 42 years ago today, but we still look to her as a style icon. And we still love those classic handbags.
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In the beginning it was Betty James who found the word “slinky” in a dictionary and thought it aptly described the toy her husband had invented. In the long haul, she was …
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Long before Lady Gaga wore a dress made of meat or celebrities dressed in outrageous ensembles for the Met Ball, there was Elsa Schiaparelli.