Women’s Empowerment is broken. After over fifty years of working to get women in business into positions of numerical parity, it’s becoming clear that progress is slow. Too slow. In this talk, I explain the whole problem of “empowerment” as a strategy for gender equity. Even better, I propose THREE action steps! I’m excited to […]
Feminists have created many successful businesses that demonstrated and promoted feminist values. These feminist businesses were innovative. Revolutionary. And largely forgotten.
Few people know that these businesses ever existed, and even fewer remember what they were about, what practices and strategies worked for them, and what led to their closures— or their longevity. Without knowing feminist businesses’ history, we can’t learn from their mistakes. Worse, we can’t build on their achievements.
Starting in February 2023, we will reconnect with the legacy of feminist business, and draw from their experiences some shared principles and guidance for current and future feminist businesses.
3 Classes, 6 weeks, to develop shared feminist business praxis.
For our second conversation about Feminist Business Histories, we'll focus on three key elements: Products, Customers, and Community.
For our third class conversation, we'll delve into some stories about how feminist businesses managed to get things done. How did they make decisions? Share power? Act as "activists"? Make money?
Come to this short Info Session to learn what's planned for our next Feminist Business History course, coming in Sept. - Oct. '23. Learn about this lighter version, designed with the busy, curious, feminist business person in mind. Get all your questions answered, so you know whether this class is for you. In this Info […]
Are you a feminist entrepreneur hoping to infuse your business with feminist principles? And you want to work wisely, avoiding common mistakes and building on feminist successes? This Feminist Business History course might be just right for you. Sign up here: This class is designed to help us remember what feminist businesspeople have already […]
How does a feminist business grow? We all know that growing as a feminist business means something beyond “scaling” or getting bigger. While some of us do want our business to get bigger, all of us want them to be better. We want them to flourish and grow according to our own feminist, anti-oppression, anti-extraction […]
Co-Learning Conversation: Vibrator Nation: How feminist sex toy stores changed the business of pleasure What's even better than a book club? A Co-Learning Conversation!! In a C0-Learning Conversation, we read the book in advance, knowing which sections to emphasize (or skip) and what questions to pursue. Then, we come together in a guided, semi-structured conversation. […]