How She Does It: How Women Entrepreneurs Are Changing the Rules of Business Success
Redefining power and the nature of success for the 21st century. The numbers are staggering. Between 1997 and 2004, privately held, women-owned businesses grew at three times the rate of all American privately held firms; women’s companies are creating jobs at twice the rate of all firms; women’s companies are growing profits faster than all firms. Five-time CEO and contributor to Real Business and Fast Company Margaret Heffernan asks, Why are these women so successful?
Dorothea Lange's photographs record the effect of the Great Depression on "invisible" Americans. Her studies of poor migrant workers during their search for day labor in the Southwest drew much-needed attention to their plight, and her images of the Japanese-American Internment of World War II describe marginalization more meaningfully than words ever could.
Eunice Waymon was a prodigy on the piano, but it was only through charity that she could be trained classically. Her career in song began by chance, but she went on to create a musical style all her own. "The High Priestess of Soul" sings of love, loss, and the injustices of race and gender in American society.
Despite her family's Hollywood connections, de Mille struggled for years to become a dancer. She found strength in collaboration, and her lifelike, expressive choreography set a new standard for Broadway and American ballet.
The British essayist and author Virginia Woolf was born into publishing, and her writings problematized the condition of the woman in a male-dominated society. With a close group of fellow writers, she developed a new, more personal way of telling stories, and she became a leader in the literary revolution that followed World War I.
