In tribute to the women who blazed those trails and made it possible for sisters around the world to get out of the kitchen and into the world of business, this article would be remiss without at least one notable late.
Elizabeth Arden
You would have to be living under a rock for over a hundred years not to recognize this name. At a time when women weren’t allowed to even wear makeup let alone run a lemonade stand, Elizabeth Arden started what is now a billion-dollar industry.
In 1910, the Canadian opened her first spa on Fifth Avenue in New York City where she hired a team of chemists to develop her unique skincare products. Fifty-six years later, Arden passed away leaving behind a global brand of 100 salons worldwide.
Arden will forever be remembered as the first woman on the cover of Time magazine in 1946, and the company’s net worth is over a billion dollars now. She chartered a new course for women in history – that of the business mogul.