The long and storied history of family-owned businesses, FOBs, has been plagued by the hurdle of not always recognising the real influence in many successful family ventures – the ‘invisible hand’ of the woman. The role and influence of women in FOBs are more than the relic of the past, where, inter alia, women were denied loans from financial institutions to start or support businesses, unless such agreement was signed or co-signed by their husbands or male partners. This was n ››Read More