Women’s History Month: Lois Hagen
Day 21 of Women’s History Month features Milwaukee Journal furnishing reporter Lois Hagen. According to this article: Lois was born in Westby, Wisconsin in 1918. She earned a journalism degree at UW-Madison – at a time when it was unusual for a woman to do something other than earn a teaching certificate. Initially, Lois worked as a journalist at Time and the Associated Press. She spent the bulk of her career in the women’s pages of the Milwaukee Journal. She set new standards for women at the newspaper, being the first mother to return to the Journal after having a child. She traveled extensively covering furnishings and she won a Penney-Missouri Award for her reporting.
The above is a 1953 in-house ad promoting Lois’s work.
Here is a link to papers that include some letters and photos of Lois. The image of Lois in a gown can be found there.
