Great Article About Maggie Savoy
I was thrilled to read this wonderful column about Arizona women’s page editor Maggie Savoy.
Here is some of what came from my interview with the columnist:
“When I got her on the phone, Voss was between semesters at the University of Central Florida-Orlando, where she’s an associate journalism professor, and happy to talk.
There’s a saying, “Well-behaved women don’t make history,” but Voss thinks they do. She spent six years piecing together Savoy’s story for a paper she published in 2009 called “Forgotten Feminist.”
Savoy didn’t want to alienate readers uncomfortable with feminist issues. So along with ideas for potluck dinners and women’s club activities, she served up stories about the first rape hotlines, help for domestic-violence victims, and disparities in pay between men and women.
Savoy wouldn’t always voice her own opinion outright, Voss says, but she would raise an issue, such as how men could work as many hours as they liked but hours for women were limited. “Why is this?” she would ask, leaving readers to wonder the same.
Like other women’s section editors of the time, Voss says, Savoy operated in the confines of the time, in high heels and perfect lipstick, and she made great strides.”
