Katherine Graham, the Washington Post & Marie Sauer

I just received word that the Encyclopedia of the Sixties will be published at the end of the month. I wrote two entries for the Encyclopedia: one about Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham and one about the false myth of women burning their bras at the 1968 Miss America Pageant.

When it comes to women’s page history, too much credit goes to the Washington Post as being the leader in transforming the women’s pages into lifestyle sections. (The personal credit tends to go to editor Ben Bradlee not publisher Graham.)

I would argue that Washington Post women’s page editor Marie Sauer was the true leader of women’s page progress. In fact, she wanted to change the name to something more progressive in the 1950s but was turned down. The technical change to the Post’s Style section was made upon her retirement.

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