Guadalupe Ibarra
Guadalupe Ibarra was the first Ecuadorian woman to hold a diploma in architecture (1970).
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Dr Dee Allen
American military veteran and businesswoman
Bessie Couture
Bessie Couture was the owner and operator of two restaurants in Skagway, Alaska starting in the 1890s.
Charmelle Sèmènou Alavo
Charmelle Sèmènou Alavo is the Founder of Sharm’s Concept, a design agency located in Cotonou, Littoral, Benin.
Véra Nabokova
Vera Nabokova gave up her own career to become her husband’s editor, reviewer, typist, business manager, and agent, as well as supporting their family financially as a secretary and translator.
Marjorie Merriweather Post
Marjorie Merriweather Post inherited the General Food Corporation in 1914 and served as a director until 1958.
Hester Lane
Born enslaved, as an adult free woman Hester Lane built her own business and used her success to buy other people out of slavery, as well as working tirelessly as a fundraiser for different organisations.
Ann Macaulay
1700s English-Canadian businesswoman
Beulah Lee Sampson Flowers
Beulah Lee Sampson Flowers was an African-American educator, community leader, political activist, and businesswoman who was also a mentor to Maya Angelou.
Martha Coston
Martha Coston worked for 10 years to perfect and then patent her late husband’s idea for a pyrotechnic flare.