Yesterday I received this book that Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry wrote. In it, she examines the business climate for women in her city. While a rather conservative community, there were several prominent business women. Take for example, Mary Kay Ash – creator of Mary Kay Cosmetics and and Bette Nesmith Graham – creator of Liquid Paper. (Her son became part of the band, the Monkees.)

This from a 2004 Dallas Morning News article in the Vivian and her friend Louise Raggio (family law attorney): They “chose professions that were traditionally male-dominated – especially in conservative post-war Dallas – not terribly welcoming to the few women in their ranks. Thus each had to reinvent the way mothers were expected to work in the 1950s and 1960s.”

I am examining how these successful women navigated their way through a male-dominated industries in Dallas. What were their strategies?

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Yesterday I received this book that Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry wrote. In it, she examines the business climate for women in her city. While a rather conservative community, there were several prominent business women. Take for example, Mary Kay Ash – creator of Mary Kay Cosmetics and and Bette Nesmith Graham – creator of Liquid Paper. (Her son became part of the band, the Monkees.)

This from a 2004 Dallas Morning News article in the Vivian and her friend Louise Raggio (family law attorney): They “chose professions that were traditionally male-dominated – especially in conservative post-war Dallas – not terribly welcoming to the few women in their ranks. Thus each had to reinvent the way mothers were expected to work in the 1950s and 1960s.”

I am examining how these successful women navigated their way through a male-dominated industries in Dallas. What were their strategies?

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