There was an interesting post in the New York Times today. The Motherlode section that focuses on parenting is being moved from the Magazine section to the Style section. (The Style section is the former Women’s Pages – which often focused on family, fashion, food and furnishings.) Here is the announcement. There were several comment critical of the move. Here is one:“Clear message from the new magazine regime : parenting is for the women’s pages (style) section, not the serious journalism section (magazine).” Interesting that the *stigma* of the women’s pages remains – even with the name change decades ago.

I was doing more research on food journalism and came across this 1955 article by Jane Nickerson in the Women’s Pages. What I ended up most interested in was the article next to it – “Working Wives Claim Tradition.” The story begins: “A wife and mother holding a full time job is not breaking tradition, a panel of working homemakers agreed today ina Farm and Home Week discussion. When the country was an agricultural society women were an economic necessity in the home; today their granddaughters are simply making their economic contribution by working outside the home, the panel decided.” This is certainly an interesting message to the women reading…

Here is my tribute to Kay Mills that is posted on the Ms blog: “For many journalism historians like myself, Kay Mills’ first book, A Place in the News: From the Women’s Pages to the Front Pages, modeled how to, finally, write women into the story of journalism. And she did it in a way that translated so well–she began each chapter with a personal story about discrimination endured by a female journalist, starting with her own story of Newsweek’s Chicago bureau chief declining to hire her in 1966. She recalled him saying:I need someone I can send anywhere, like to riots. And besides, what would you do if someone…