Estee Lauder Research Paper

Jewish American women are faced with the prejudices of being female and of a persecuted religion. Despite the constant hate we receive, we make the biggest differences in the world. Women like Estee Lauder are people that young jewish girls can look up to. Coming from a religious background growing up in queens new york, Estee Lauder paved the way for female pioneers for future generations. Her legacy continues to this day in her cosmetic line, Estee Lauder.
Lauder did not always see herself as an entrepreneur in the science field, she always dreamed of herself bathing in the lights of hollywood. Estee Lauder was born with the name Josephine Esther Mentzer but changed it to sound more regal and less jewish to prosper in the competitive world …show more content…
Seeing how she put her dream above all else inspires me to do the same. Becoming a mother did not slow her down from climbing up the ladder of success, nor did her job make her lesser of a mother. She even divorced her husband because she was so devoted to her focus. This could be seen as a negative aspect, but I find that because she was willing to go to such length truly proves how strong and independant she was. She defied the boundaries in which women of that day were placed in and put herself out there, by going door to door and letting her name be known. As an aspiring businesswomen there are many things to learn from estee lauder. She was not perfect, she was far from it, but she was a successful woman who knew what she wanted and how to get there, which is what I aspire to be.
Successful women work twice as hard to get to where they are. THey are not seen as professional or as intellectual as men. Estee Lauder took that stereotype and buried it in the ground. American Jewish women throughout the ages have made so many differences in their fields and we have so much to learn from them. I hope that I too, as an american jewish woman, will make a difference in my