Harper’s  franchising system empowered and enriched poor women, as well as herself! •Servant Girl Creates 500 Franchises Around the World Bound out into servitude from the time she was seven years old, Martha Matilda Harper knew she had to change her life. •From Suffrage to Franchising Susan B. Anthony while campaigning for suffrage cited Harper […]

We’ve never been told that women have been behind key mainstream inventions. Speak up, demand that history tell the full story and not a fictionalized version that makes those in power feel good.

Women’s history is too important to be limited to a month. Share the Harper story with others.

History has a horrid track record for recognizing the women’s achievements. Whether purposeful or not, the truth is women have been artists, business pioneers, inventors, creative thinkers and much more. Martha Matilda Harper’s story, bury for decades, is now being brought to life on the screen. It’s called The MARVELOUS MARTHA. There are two opportunities, […]

If you simply help yourself, your success is only half accomplished.

If a poor immigrant woman can change her life…, any of us can do something concrete to change our lives. The key is capitalizing on your assets.

COVID’s devastation affected the world’s way of life including many of us in the United States who wanted to showcase the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage. It is shameful it took over seventy years to enact women’s suffrage, including overcoming a horrid 1875 Supreme Court ruling (Minor v. Hapersetts) in which the Court ruled that […]

Why would Martha Matilda Harper, an indentured servant for 25 years become a changemaker? Why would Jane Plitt, an award winning businesswoman, become a changemaker and shift careers? Insights to those determined women and over 200 women who have often been forgotten by history, are spotlighted at the recently opened exhibit “The Changemakers: Rochester Women […]

As our country has just commemorated the 100th anniversary of women finally getting the vote, we all recognize that women’s equality has a long way to go. Martha Matilda Harper (plus Susan B. Anthony and many suffragists) understood that women’s economic empowerment was essential for women to gain control over their lives. Let’s be sure […]

As the world struggles with this pandemic, many of us are being overwhelmed by the negativity that surrounds us daily.  Thousands dying, thousands being afflicted, all adding up to millions. Having been a fan of Martha’s for nearly 25 years, I often think about her and how she would respond.  She led her  entire world […]