Business Archives - Infinite Women

Jo Nivison Hopper

Jo Nivison Hopper was a talented artist whose support of her husband Edward was vital to his success.

Dr Marilyn Anderson

Australian researcher in plant biochemistry and genetics.

Adah Lee Pettey Roussan was a pioneering American newspaperwoman who took over the Osceola Times after the death of her husband, running it from 1906 to 1918. An indefatigable progressive, she championed political reforms and societal betterment.

Edwina Cornish

Edwina Cornish is a biotechnologist who played a key role in establishing one of Australia’s first biotechnology companies, Florigene Limited, in the 1990s. The company developed and commercialised some of the world’s first genetically modified plants.

Dianne Davidson

Australian viticulturist and company director

Irdabama

The best-known and wealthiest businesswoman attested to in the records of the Achaemenid Empire at Persepolis.

Ama-e

Ama-e was a successful Sumerian businesswoman of the city of Umma who, though married, ran her own business under her own name.

Atossa

Daughter of Cyrus the Great, wife of three kings and mother of Xerxes I, who operated her own business and maintained her own court and military.

Kathy Webb

Kathy Webb—the first openly gay member of the Arkansas General Assembly—has had a long career in private business, philanthropy, and local and state government.

Kitty Kiernan

20th century Irish hotelier