Happy Fourth of July
As we celebrate Independence Day, it is important to note the contributions of women. Several women’s page editors contributed to official government action regarding women’s rights.
Marjorie Paxson (women’s page editor and journalist in Texas and Florida) went on to be the editor of the daily eight-page newspaper published in Mexico City during the UN World Conference for International Women’s Year in 1975. She also was a copy editor of President Ford’s Commission on the Status of Women report, “To Form a More Perfect Union.”
The main editor of the report, “To Form a More Perfect Union,” was Dorothy Jurney. Dorothy was women’s page editor of the Miami Herald and Detroit Free Press.
Jurney and Paxson, along with Miami women’s page editor Marie Anderson were delegates to the National Women’s Conference in Houston in 1977. (That is Marie and Dorothy in the photo above. It can be found in Marie’s papers at the WHMC at the University of Missouri.)
These journalists were true feminists despite the way they were typically treated by the many in the women’s liberation movement. They helped to create more independence for women.
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