“Give Her Credit”

Grace L. Williams

I’m really on a kick of “books about people building something” of late! And this one gets bonus points for being nonfiction, so the thing that got built really got built, which is even more fun.

“Give Her Credit” is a well-chosen title for a book about the opening of Women’s Bank in Denver, and the women who built it. It’s a cool piece of history, and touched on something I’d never really thought about: people, like, create banks. They aren’t all horrendously gigantic corporations that have existed since the 1800s! And, unsurprisingly for the banking industry, it’s a whole process to do.

I actually made it through this book in, basically, one sitting.1 It was pretty approachable! I was worried about how much sexism I was going to have to make my way through, because, again, this is a book about women opening a bank for women. In the 1970s. And the decades leading up to the 1970s. And boy, was there ever a lot of crap they were forced to go through, but the way the story was told managed to keep it from feeling overwhelming.

All in all, a good read about an interesting little corner of history. Worth a read; check it out.2

Well, I moved from the couch to the counter so that I could eat dinner while reading, but other than that… ↩

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