NCA Paper Acceptance
My paper, “Who’s Wearing the Pants? How The New York Times Reported the Changing Dress of Women,” has been accepted for the fall National Communication Association convention in San Francisco – where Lance and I got married. I looked at the literal and symbolic power of women wearing pants.
I included a story about women’s page editor Marj Paxson who went on to become a publisher of the Muskogee Phoenix in the 1980s. On the first day, she changed the policy for female employees – they could now wear pants.
From the paper:
She later learned that many of the female employees went shopping that evening. The next day, of the 45 women working at the paper, 29 were in pantsuits. She recalled, “That story got around town very quickly.” In fact, Paxson remembered shopping at Sears when the clerk looked down at the name on her credit card. She looked up at Paxson: “Are you the new lady at the paper?” Paxson replied that she was, and the clerk responded: “I’m so glad you let them wear pants.” Pants had become a symbol of change – a challenge to the status quo in terms of gender roles.
NCA Paper Acceptance
My paper, “Who’s Wearing the Pants? How The New York Times Reported the Changing Dress of Women,” has been accepted for the fall National Communication Association convention in San Francisco – where Lance and I got married. I looked at the literal and symbolic power of women wearing pants.
I included a story about women’s page editor Marj Paxson who went on to become a publisher of the Muskogee Phoenix in the 1980s. On the first day, she changed the policy for female employees – they could now wear pants.
From the paper:
She later learned that many of the female employees went shopping that evening. The next day, of the 45 women working at the paper, 29 were in pantsuits. She recalled, “That story got around town very quickly.” In fact, Paxson remembered shopping at Sears when the clerk looked down at the name on her credit card. She looked up at Paxson: “Are you the new lady at the paper?” Paxson replied that she was, and the clerk responded: “I’m so glad you let them wear pants.” Pants had become a symbol of change – a challenge to the status quo in terms of gender roles.
