Throughout history, women have been precluded from certain behaviors because of real and/or perceived physical or emotional dangers. But a number of women preserved, showing that they fearlessly faced challenges and overcame barriers. Two athletes who demonstrated that boldness and paved the way for generations to come and profiled in this months newsletter – Wilma Rudolph and Kathrine Switzer.
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Did you know that a woman was the first to use three cameras on a television set? And that a woman revolutionized preschool education by bringing characters such as Big Bird and Ernie to the television screen? We are constantly amazed at the diversity of women’s accomplishments and our collective lack of knowledge about half of our history – as women’s contributions to history are not told or acknowledged.
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Most of our readers know of the National Women’s Hall of Fame and its home in upstate New York. Do you also know hat a number of states (including our home state of Colorado) have a state Women’s Hall of fame? In this month’s enewsletter, we profile two women from our book who are also inductees into the Florida Women’s Hall of fame: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Althea Gibson.
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Each year on November 11, we celebrate Veteran’s Day to honor the men – and women – who served our country 
during wartime. In this column, we focus on women veterans from the Revolutionary War forward.
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In 2014, Sarah Deckert made history when she became the first female Armed Forces ‘Chef of the Year.’ In 2013, she had been named a 4 Star Military Executive Chef. Deckert follows in the trailblazing footsteps of women who regularized recipes – adding measurements – and brought French and Chinese cooking to America.
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Mo’ne Davis made Little League history earlier in August of this year when she became the first female throw a shutout – giving away only two hits during the Little League World Series. Davis stands on the shoulders of pioneering women who blazed trails in the sport of baseball including Kathryn “Tubby” Jonson Massar (who played Little League in 1950 – leading to a ban on girls playing that was not lifted until 1972), Nancy Lotsey (who played in the New Jersey Small Fry League in 1963), and Edith Houghton (who scouted for the Philadelphia Phillies 1946-19510. 
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