At the Podium with Dr Catherine Bishop. -“Women mean Business”

‘A woman’s place is in the home’, we have been told for generations. But is that really true? Award-winning author Dr Catherine Bishop debunks this myth, telling the stories of some entrepreneurial women in Australasian history – from 19^th-century butchers, undertakers and brothelkeepers, to 20^th-century mica miners, taxi drivers and missionaries.

Dr Catherine Bishop is a postdoctoral fellow at Macquarie Business School, currently writing a history of Australian women in business since 1880. She is the author of Minding Her Own Business: Colonial Businesswomen in Sydney, which won the Ashurst Business Literature Prize, Women Mean Business: Colonial Businesswomen in New Zealand, and Too Much Cabbage and Jesus Christ: Australia’s ‘Mission Girl’ Annie Lock. Her latest book, The World We Want: The New York Herald Tribune World Youth Forum and the Cold War Teenager, will be published in late 2024. Signed copies of Catherine’s books will be available for sale in cash or by card.

Please join us 27^th August for our very brief AGM and a very interesting talk by Dr Bishop on “Domestic Goddesses or Business Tycoons. Women in Australian History” Wine, Cheese and Chat as usual to follow the presentation.