Building the Right Framework

By Jackie Gingrich Cushman

When my grandmother (my mother’s mother) was born, women did not have the right to vote. In the rural area where she was born, it was expected she would always live there. She defied expectations, and her father’s wishes, moved to town and became a nurse. She was quite progressive for her time.

My mother went to college and earned a math degree, unusual for her time. When I graduated from high school,........