Profiles eight successful women entrepreneurs engaged in a variety of enterprises, including Mary Kay Ash, Marilyn Hamilton, Louise Woerner, Ellen Terry, Leeann Chin, Helen Boehm, Ella Musolino, and Masako Boissonnault.
Includes inspirational essays on missteps, small braveries, power pitfalls, and power surges drawn from an intergenerational dialogue between teenage girls and twenty-five congresswomen.
Profiles the lives of ten women who became leaders in business and industry, including entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker, publisher Katharine Graham, presidential advisor Alice Rivlin, and financial analyst Elaine Garzarelli.