woman chess pioneer

This author seems to think Susan Polgar "paved the way" for women in chess, but I didn't see in this article that she gave credit to Alina Markowski

http://www.memphisflyer.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A10163

Here's my blog post on the first pioneer for female chess players:

http://chess-strategies.blogspot.com/2005/08/signonsandiegocom-news-north-county.html

Heres a link to the original article I blogged about:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20050812-9999-m1m12tfsol.html