The Hockey Hall of Fame, for the thirteenth straight year, failed to use both spots allocated for women to be inducted.
The Hockey Hall of Fame, for the thirteenth straight year, failed to use both spots allocated for women to be inducted.
For the thirteenth consecutive year, the Hockey Hall of Fame failed to use both spots allocated for women, while inducting six men, and only a single woman, Caroline Ouellette.
The list of women as or more qualified than men currently being inducted continues to grow, a list including builders Fran Rider and Hilda Ranscombe, and players including Jennifer Botterill, Meghan Duggan, Vicky Sunohara, Cassie Campbell, Florence Schelling, Maria Rooth, Kim Martin, Julie Chu, Karen Bye, Natalie Darwitz, Erika Holst, Sami Jo Small, Monique, Carla MacLeod, Krissy Wendell, Dawn McGuire, Cindy Curley, Cathy Phillips, and Yekaterina Smolentseva.
Women were first allowed into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2010 when two spots were allocated for women each year. That year, the Hall inducted Angela James and Cammi Granato. Since 2010, the Hockey Hall of Fame has never again used both spots to induct women to the Hall of Fame, and four times have excluded women from their induction class entirely.
Alternatively four men can be inducted each year. Two spots are also allocated to builders, regardless of gender, although no woman has ever been inducted in this category.
The current Hockey Hall of Fame induction committee is made up of 16 men and two women - Cassie Cambell and Cammi Granato.
The 2023 Hockey Hall of Fame induction class includes Caroline Ouellette, Henrik Lundqvist, Tom Barrasso, Mike Vernon, Pierre Turgeon, Ken Hitchcock, and Pierre Lacroix.