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Pursuing the American Dream

© Lea Moore

As little as 50 years ago, even the women of the United States had few options available to them in the business world. Unless we were movie stars or heiresses, we were expected to marry and raise families. Our worth was based upon how well we kept our homes and how happy our families were.

Just 30 years ago that began to change. Women began entering the workforce and staying there. We began to educate ourselves and to compete with men for jobs that had, traditionally, been open only to the men of the world.

We, who had been kept in the dark regarding all the aspects of starting an running a business, had to learn things the hard way.

Of course, there were those who had shops and hair salons, and restaurants. There were even those who were owned Fortune 500 companies. But the majority of us were still waiting tables and being treated as we didn't have the intelligence or werewithal to compete with the males of our great country. We were passed over for promotions and stayed, for years, in dead-end jobs because we didn't feel like we had a choice.

Today, we can pursue our dreams of independence and business ownership. Still, many of us are afraid to step out on a limb and pursue that which our sisters before us have fought so hard for. They have paved the path. Now it is our privelege to draw upon their knowledge and experience to pursue our own dreams.

What are you waiting for? Although I don't advise you to jump, feet first, into unknown waters, I encourage you to pursue your dreams. Where else in this world are women allowed to do so.

There are still places in this world where women cannot leave their homes without their husband's permission and then must keep their faces covered and their eyes averted from the men they meet on the street.

We have the privilege of living in a country where we have the freedom to do as we please, within reason, and within the law. We are free to marry or remain single. We can work or stay at home with our children. We are allowed to come and go aw we choose.

And, we are allowed to start and operate our own business.

Pursue your dreams. Take the plunge. Become that which you have always wanted to be.

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