September 09, 2015
Women In Coffee
Like many corporate, big money industries today, the billion-dollar coffee industry is male-dominated. If we go all the way back to its origin, running the first coffee plantations in the Americas was a macho business – men primarily ran them and if women were employed at all, it was for slave labor. The first coffeehouses were considered male domains, and in an interesting historical side note, coffee consumption in the…
