1.2 BACKGROUND
Table 1.1 Entrepreneurial Development Over Time
Timeline Achievement Steel mill owner Rebecca Lukens
1910 – 1939 In the nineteenth century, women-owned businesses, as a way to provide an income for women who found themselves without a bread winning man.. These women owned businesses in the face of prevailing social ideas that the unsavory world of business was unsuitable for women’s gentle and frail natures. Business, then, in these earlier eras, was a way for a woman in potentially dire circumstances to provide for herself rather than become a social burden. Many women succeeded in any case; among them, Rebecca Lukens, who, beginning in 1825, turned her family’s faltering ironworks into a thriving steel business that
Table 1.1 Entrepreneurial Development Over Time
Timeline Achievement Steel mill owner Rebecca Lukens
1910 – 1939 In the nineteenth century, women-owned businesses, as a way to provide an income for women who found themselves without a bread winning man.. These women owned businesses in the face of prevailing social ideas that the unsavory world of business was unsuitable for women’s gentle and frail natures. Business, then, in these earlier eras, was a way for a woman in potentially dire circumstances to provide for herself rather than become a social burden. Many women succeeded in any case; among them, Rebecca Lukens, who, beginning in 1825, turned her family’s faltering ironworks into a thriving steel business that