First American Women’s Page
I have been able to confirm that one of the first women’s page in a U.S. newspaper was in the Milwaukee Journal – not in Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World as many journalism histories state. For example, the Encyclopedia of American Journalism notes that Pulitzer was the first to included weekly articles aimed at women in 1891 and by 1894 had a regular “For and About Women” section.
The image above is from the Google project that scanned issues of the Milwaukee Journal from its beginning. It proves that on August 9, 1885 the Journal published a section called: “Maids and Matrons” that was clearly intended as a women’s page.
A story in the March 29, 1995 food section of the Milwaukee Journal shows an image of a section called “Women and the Home – HER DAILY PAGE” from November 25, 1882.
