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But what was it like for women who owned businesses in Houston in that pivotal post-war period?
Meredith May is studying just that as she works on a Ph.D. in history from Texas Christian University. She's focusing her dissertation on researching and recording all the women-owned businesses in Houston from just after World War II up until 1977, the year when a large women's conference was held here. It was the International Women's Conference and 20,000 attended what would be the first – and only – national women’s conference to be sponsored by the federal government.
That's where the conversation began between May and Houston Matters producer Paige Phelps.
And you can share the story of a woman business owner in Houston between World War Two and 1977 at talk@houstonmatters.org.
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