In this episode, we’re doing something a little different. Instead of doing a deep dive on one woman, we talk about a handful of women who were among the first women to do what they did. We start off by mentioning a number of firsts that we have already covered. Then we get into the main topic. We have chosen five broad categories and each picked a woman within that category to discuss. We give an overview of who these women are (or were) and what they are known for. We share when and where they were born, a little about their early years, then get into how they broke into their field. Finally we talk a little about their legacy and impact in that particular field. We even reserved a small section for honorable mentions: other women we came across who we would love to talk about but that we didn’t really have time to explore in detail.

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Hosts: Kimberly Kunkle and Rebecca L. Salois

Logo Design: Samantha Marmolejo

Music: Shawn P. Russell

Sound Consultant and Mixing: Shawn P. Russell

Recording and Editing: Rebecca L. Salois

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Sources:

• The Book of Women's Firsts: Breakthrough Achievements of Over 1000 American Women, by Phyllis J. Read and Bernard L. Witlieb
• Fabulous Female Firsts: Because of Them, We Can, by Marlene Wagmen-Geller
• Monster, written and directed by Patty Jenkins
• Bad Girls Throughout History, by Ann Shen
• 100 Women Who Shaped World History, by Gail Meyer Rolka and Bill Rolka
• “Stories about Women Who Changed the World,” a list of over 30 books by Penguin Random House