Women Mean Business Book Talk

Jeans and Hacker Streets in Masterton commemorate two local businesswomen, although perhaps few today would realise this. Emma Jeans and her sister Elizabeth Hacker were just two of numbers of entrepreneurial Wairarapa women.

In this talk Catherine Bishop, author of Women Mean Business: Colonial businesswomen in New Zealand (Otago University Press), explores the stories of some of New Zealand’s colonial entrepreneurs – the successful and the outright failures, the heart-warming and the tragic, the everyday and the scandalous.

Born and raised in Whanganui, Dr Catherine Bishop is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Macquarie University in Sydney. Her first book Minding Her Own Business: Colonial Businesswomen in Sydney (NewSouth Publishing, 2015) won the prestigious 2016 Ashurst Business Literature Prize. This is her second book.