Oct 13th, 2008 · In the 19th century, Victoria Woodhull was a clairvoyant, a businesswoman and an advocate for women's rights and sexual freedom. But she is best known as the first woman to run for president. Her 1872 campaign came at a time when most women did not even have the right to vote.
Oct 6th, 2008 · To national audience, Michelle Obama is well-known because of her husband's presidential candidacy. But the attorney and businesswoman has an impressive and distinguished career of her own. Liza Mundy, author of Michelle, a new biography of Michelle Obama, writes about the Chicago native's professional aspirations and how they coincided with her Sen. Barack Obama's political journey.
Aug 25th, 2008 · The keynote address for the opening night of the Democratic National Convention will come from a woman who might become the country's next first lady, Michelle Obama. Chicago businesswoman Valerie Jarrett, a longtime friend of the Obamas and a senior advisor to the Illinois senator's presidential campaign, describes what few may know about Michelle Obama and why she's a leader in her own right.
Apr 21st, 2008 · Single businesswoman Kate Holbrook decides to have a child at 37, but when she's told there's little chance of her getting pregnant, she recruits the help of a surrogate mother in Baby Mama. The surrogate is an uncultured woman from South Philadelphia whose notions of child bearing are unorthodox, to say the least.
Sep 11th, 2007 · A brain hemorrhage cuts short the life of Anita Roddick -- environmentalist, businesswoman and animal rights campaigner. Roddick, 64, founded the Body Shop, an eco-friendly cosmetics company.
Oct 17th, 2006 · Private space tourism took an important step last month when the first female space tourist took flight. Her name is Anousheh Ansari, and she returned from her trip two weeks ago. Ansari is a Iranian-American businesswoman who immigrated to the United States when she was a child.
Mar 23rd, 2005 · On the eve of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's trip to Beijing this past weekend, China released a prominent dissident. Rebiya Kadeer had advocated greater rights for the ethnic Uigher community, a Turkic speaking Muslim population in western China. Kadeer, a self-made and very wealthy businesswoman, once was praised by the Chinese government and given official positions. But her activism on behalf of ethnic Uighers apparently raised government concerns about separatism in the impoverished region of Xianxiang. Kadeer is now in the Washington, D.C., area.