ABSTRACT
The lifestyles and values of minority women are often left out of workplace considerations and policies – in effect, minority women are excluded from work communities. Minority women might open a business as a constructive response to feeling unwelcome in the workplace, as well as a way to help others who have been similarly ill-treated. In fact, even as minority women entrepreneurs encounter prejudice in conventional workplaces, they must also demonstrate that their status as entrepreneurs does not diminish their minority identity and commitment to community values. Rita Chang identifies as a minority entrepreneur in myriad ways: as an Asian American, a woman, and perhaps the most unusual, a teacher. Chang decided to enter teaching as a second career knowing that teachers "do not make a lot of money." If Chang was born an entrepreneur, the Maryam Jamaludeen had entrepreneurship thrust upon them.
