Although the Equal Credit Opportunity Act passed in 1974, most women did not know the law existed. Bankers frequently told women they needed a male relative to co-sign for their loans. In response to such discrimination, a group of women and a few men founded The Women's Bank, N.A. in Denver in 1978. In its first easy of existence it collected a million dollars in deposits. Soon it would become the most successful women's bank in the United States.

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Dr. Tom Noel is a well-known and prolific writer of Colorado history; I am thrilled to have had the opportunity to work on this history with him and to have met the pioneering women who founded the bank and ensured its success.

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The Women's Bank is available for purchase at the Center for Colorado Women's History at the Byers-Evans House Museum in Denver, Colorado.