Judith Martin: In defense of ‘women’s pages’
I was thrilled to see this great article about the great article about the women’s pages at the Washington Post this weekend: “Judith Martin: In defense of ‘women’s pages.'”
I especially enjoyed this segment:
“The women’s section reported the feminist revolution of the ’60s and ’70s when other parts of the paper mentioned it rarely and then only as a joke. The Women’s Strike for Peace was ridiculed as being a bunch of housewives who should have stayed home, but we took them seriously long before their actions grew into the wider youth movement protesting the war in Vietnam.”
and this:
“Certainly not those of us who worked there. We lived with that section head because the women’s department was where the jobs were — we could see how few women were advancing elsewhere in the news business — and because it was an exciting place to work.”
Martin’s column is in the spirit of the post I wrote last month for Ms Magazine about the women’s pages in the Washington Post: Remembering the Real Pioneers of Lifestyle Journalism. Below is a photo of Marie Sauer who headed the Washington Post women’s pages.
