Women Who Win

I am starting a new blog topic today.  One I have been planning and contemplating for some time.  A blog on the Women Who Win.  The women who take on big challenges, throw their hats into the arena of competition and fight for achievement, recognition, financial reward, fairness and/or some grand design.  Maybe even all of the above.  I have long been inspired by the stories of women who achieve greatly - often against the greatest of odds.  Odds made that much more daunting because they weren't supposed to compete, weren't supposed to have that job, weren't supposed to win or even to want to.  Unfortunately, the stories - while more common today - still stand out because women remain underrepresented in the ranks of the most recognized,most celebrated and most compensated.  Maybe it was the recent flap around "Still She Persisted" or seeing a more qualified leader lose to a clearly less qualified one that spurred me on to finally start this blog. I will start with a series of profiles - short vignettes - on the women who stories have inspired me along the way.

One thing for sure is that I agree with the woman whose profile will start us off, Pat Summitt, hall of fame coach for the Lady Volunteers of the University of Tennessee.  In describing her college days in the early 1970s she laid out her philosophy vis a vis the burgeoning women's movement.  She said, "Protesting and sign carrying wasn't me - and wasn't going to get it done.  But there was only one way could see that changed things: winning.  You changed things for women by winning."