#GAReads | In Male-Dominated Pizza Circles, Women Are Grabbing A Bigger Slice Of The Pie
“In Male-Dominated Pizza Circles, Women Are Grabbing A Bigger Slice Of The Pie”:
When Laura Meyer won the World Pizza Championship for pan pizza in Parma, Italy, the Italian judges called her the male word for champion. Despite her first-place victory, she was the only winner who didn't get a trophy that day. Hers was mailed a year later.
"They basically refused to acknowledge that a woman had won," she said, recently recalling the snub. She was the first woman to win — and the first American. That was in 2013.