Article on the Forum’s Former Women’s Section
The North Dakota newspaper, The Forum, ran an interesting article about its old women’s section. There is a timeline at the end. Here is the article.
Here is the beginning of the article: “When Syb Gullickson began working in The Forum’s “women’s section” in the late 1960s, she and other department staff had resigned themselves to several hard facts.
They knew they would probably make less than anyone else in the newsroom. And they knew they would spend hours writing stories that male reporters wouldn’t touch, including society gossip, ladies’ club news and meticulously detailed accounts of local weddings.
Yet Gullickson enjoyed writing about the people and families in these female-centric pages. In time, she became the department’s editor, shaping it into a more gender-neutral section that featured well-written, well-designed stories on relevant, sometimes gritty topics.”
The feature also introduces a new women’s section for the newspaper.
