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Mary Yeager, associate professor of history
at the University of California at Los Angeles, explains that there
are many ways to tell the story of women and business. Her approach
is to see men and women on the same economic stage: sometimes cooperating,
sometimes competing, acting alone or together, interacting across
the private and public spheres and in a range of business activities
that span beyond manufacturing, into service, retail, and a host of
creative industries. Why is it that in the most business-oriented
country in the world, business people have had to fight their way
into the history books, long after priests, presidents, generals,
and warriors made their debut? Not until 1938 was there a single,
comprehensive, international history of the businessman. In this case,
it was written by a 37-year-old woman, Miriam Beard, who single-handedly
exposed the business interests behind the rise of American economic
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