Was the first major U.S.corporation to have a woman serve on the board of directors? Who was she?
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Lettie Pate Evans \n1872–1953\nCoca Cola
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The first modern brassiere to receive a patent and gain wide acceptance was a bra invented by a New York socialite named Mary Phelps Jacob in 1910.
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Rosa Parks, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, Marie Curie, Amelia Earhart, Elanor Roosevelt, Susan B Anthony, Sacajawea, etc.  You really should get a book on the subject.
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The Clorox Company\nhttp://www.thecloroxcompany.com/company/history/index.html\n\nThe Electro-Alkaline company went public in 1921 under the registered name "The Clorox Company".
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That would be Shirley Muldowney. She was pretty famous for that hot pink car, but more famous for being the first female to race in the NHRA.\n\nIn 1983, HBO made a (sorta cheezy) movie about her called "Heart Like a Wheel"
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A corporation is owned by its stock holders.  That includes a lot of what is classicly called "widows & orphans;" that is, people who are dependent upon the income from their investments, especially if held in mutual funds or in a trust.  A lot of times they are not at all wealthy, having inherited those assets.  Once they start spending the capital, not just the interest, they will be doomed to smaller and smaller incomes until they starve.\n\nWhen we think of a large corporation, the tendency is to think of the officers and executives of the company, who get huge salaries and benefits, including stock in the company.  But there are very few people with the organizational skills to hold down such a position.  Also, there are very few people who are not only capable but willing, given the long hours, heavy responsibilities, lack of privacy, and social demands (going to all sorts of social activities for business reasons, rather than for your own pleasure).  I, for one, don't need money so bad that I would put up with all that.  So, they get huge salaries and benefits on the same supply and demand law that governs us all: there is so much demand for competent executives, and so little supply.\n\nThose who condemn large corporations have probably bought the BS that was being dished out in the USSR years ago.  Or they fail to see that some projects require a large organization to achieve the goal.  When I worked for Bechtel (the largest privatly owned corporation in America at the time), they were building a whole city to accommodate a population of 100,000 as just ONE of their projects.  Even if they hire innumerable subcontractors, it takes a lot to plan and execute such a project.  It couldn't be done by a "mom & pop" operation!
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Interview prominent women who hard worked hard to get to where they are.
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In 2006, 81 women serve in the U.S. Congress. Fourteen women serve in the Senate, and 67 women serve in the House. The number of women in statewide elective executive posts is 79, while the proportion of women in state legislatures is at 22.8 percent. \n\n\nCongress: women hold 81, or 15.1%, of the 535 seats in the 109th US Congress — 14, or 14.0%, of the 100 seats in the Senate and 67, or 15.4%, of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives. In addition, three women serve as Delegates to the House from Guam, the Virgin Islands and Washington, DC.\n\nStatewide Elective Executive: In 2006, 79 women hold statewide elective executive offices across the country; women hold 25.1% of the 315 available positions. Among these women, 35 are Democrats, 40 are Republicans, one is an independent, and 3 were elected in nonpartisan races.\n\n\nState Legislature: In 2006, 1,686, or 22.8%, of the 7,382 state legislators in the United States are women. Women hold 409, or 20.8%, of the 1,984 state senate seats and 1,277, or 23.6%, of the 5,411 state house seats. Since 1971, the number of women serving in state legislatures has increased more than four-fold.
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No. Labor laws vary by state, but that isn't a God-given right, the way life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are.\n\nIn fact, in a worse-case scenario, if you posted pictures from the "Big Topless Babes on Big Bikes" Magazine and the corporation did nthing to stop you, a woman who was offended could sue them for a couple of hundred thousand dollars for sexual harassment.\n\nVirtually all corporations have policies about bulletin boards. Most of them don't want sex, politics, money or religion discussed in the work place or posted on their bulletin boards, so, if they have one, they don't allow tracts from competing denominations, political posters, ads for Avon products or offers from "generous" older men looking for discrete single women 18 - 25 who look good in tight tops.\n\nThe possibilities for mis-use are endless. If they let you put up a BB with cute pictures of your puppies / grandchildren / kittens / roses, they have to let me put up one with cute pictures of my new wife in a bikini, plus posters for the WatchTower warning everyone that the end of the world is coming. Then they have to have an HR person come by and argue with me.\n\nIt is just easier to say "no". Most corpoarte BB's have nothing but the OSHA warnings, position announcements and flyers about the company picnic. They are safe but dull.\n\nIn a related issue, you have the freedom of speech, but you can't spend company time trying to convert your fellow employees to your brand of politics or religion; they are paying you to be an accountant, programmer, mechanic, clerk, CEO, sales person, waiter, etc etc. They frown on you doing it on lunch breaks, too.
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Board of Directors are a group of people who have something in common the incorporation of a company. You must first form a company with one or two person then you name a chairman, a managing director and a secretary. The sitting of these group of person to take some decisions pertaining to the functiiong of the companY normally called private limited company, is called a board meeting which automatically understand a Board of Directors. All this is written in a report called a Memorandum. hope this will be of help.
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"The woman of substance"
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the other two were women ?
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Hewlett Packard's first product was an automatic urinal flusher.\n\nRichard Versalle, a tenor performing at New York's Metropolitan Opera House, suffered a heart attack and fell 10 feet from a ladder to the stage just after singing the line "You can only live so long."\n\nMichael Jordan makes more money from Nike each year than all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.\n\nAll of Queen Anne's 17 children died before she did.\n\nTopless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
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Try this link! I read about at least 2 women in the article.\n\nIf the article doesn't help maybe there is another link on the page that will.\n\nGood Luck!
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Industrialization, WW1, and WW2 changed roles of women in society.  Barriers for women in corporate American are still present the glass ceiling is still there and women still make .75 cents to the 1.00 when compared to men in the corporate setting.  A women’s role is society should be the same as a mans.  Same rights and privileges.  I do believe that women and men both have the right to be stay at home parents if they chose.
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According to this site, six women have sought the GOP or Democrat nominations since 1964, but none have succeeded. They are Margaret Chase Smith (Rep), Shirley Chisholm, Patsy Mink, Bella Abzug (all Dem), Elizabeth Dole (Rep), and Carol Moseley Braun (Dem). Victoria Woodhull and Belva Ann Lockwood ran as fringe candidates in the 19th century, before women could actually vote.
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America has always been ready if it's the right woman for the job.  Hillary and Condi don't fit the bill though.  Too bad Madeline Albright is getting up there in years, Sandra Day O'Conner (sp?) might be another good choice.