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Bonnie Barczykowski, CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA, reflects on her mother’s widowhood at a young age and how she was determined to live independently. A first-generation college graduate, Barczykowski also recalls a pivotal meeting with a . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
June Inuzuka served as the attorney for the Women’s Equity Action League and worked on the passage of H.R. 5050, the 1988 Women’s Business Ownership Act. In this interview, she recalls how, as the President of a local Asian American women’s group . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
With parents who worked in the technology field without four-year degrees, Dwana Franklin-Davis saw how the lack of a college education in computer science limited their financial well-being. She is now the CEO of Reboot Representation, an . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
Hannah-Beth Jackson started as an attorney in the mid-1970s, when very few women were in the field. She worked for years on issues like domestic violence and rape and served on the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls. Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
When Karen Nussbaum arrived in Boston in the early 1970s without a college degree, typist was one of her only job choices. Together with some coworkers, Nussbaum founded 9to5, an organization and later also a union to support and organize . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
Shubhi Rao’s family is from India. While they encouraged their children to strive in both education and work, there was an expectation that their success contributed to the family economy, not only to their own individual gain. Having been a . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
Having grown up in Italy, Annamaria Lusardi came to the United States to study economics. Facing a critical lack of data about how and why people make their most important financial decisions, Lusardi teamed up with Olivia Mitchell to develop . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
Virginia Littlejohn has played a leadership role in national and international efforts to support women entrepreneurs for decades. Even after the 1974 passage of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, women still had to get a male co-signer for . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.