There is an interesting article Jerry Beck brought up on his blog cartoonbrew and I don't usually like to repeat posts, but in case folks are unaware...There has been a lot of talk of the mystery of female animators at Disney, or lack there of.
Here is just brief bit about Rhetta Scott - the animator Wade Sampson talks about most in his article - or at least info I could find on the internet:
RETTA (SCOTT) DAVIDSON, longtime Disney animation artist, died June 12, 1998. Her maiden name was Scott and she was the first female animator at Disney (on Bambi). Starting at Disney in 1939 as an inker and painter, Retta became an inbetweener during the Second World War, becoming one of the few females in a (then) all-male workplace. Late in the war she joined the Navy and worked in a Washington D.C. film unit. She retired from the animation business in 1985. She spent time in between her career at Disney's in the 40's and the late 70's freelancing for other studios.
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