Huffington Post Introduces a Women’s Page
It was announced yesterday that the Huffington Post will now have a women’s section.
According to the blog: “HuffPost Women is a site for women looking to redefine success and what it means to live a healthy, happy, well-rounded life. It will highlight an approach to living that centers on the happiness that comes from feeling good by doing good; that draws attention to the importance of “unplugging and recharging”; that cheers on the continued shattering of glass ceilings; and that embraces a fearless attitude about work, love, money, beauty, relationships, and friendships — with the understanding that fearlessness is not the absence of fear, it’s the mastery of fear. It’s about getting up one more time than you fall down.”
It is interesting that when newspapers eliminated the women’s pages in the late 1960s and early 1970s, it was considered progress. It was a sign that news about women would no longer be marginalized in a special section. Now, 30-plus years later, the media model returns to having a special section for women.
As for the argument that these new sections are taking a more progressive approach compared to women’s sections of the past, I would counter that history never really examined the content of these sections. It was easier to declare its contents as “fluff.” But, in reality, many of these sections had a rich mix of content.
