Jean Sharley Taylor
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Death of Jean Sharley Taylor
I was sorry to hear that former women’s page editor Jean Sharley Taylor had died although I liked her obituary which was posted today: “Jean Sharley Taylor — a woman whose talent and persistence earned her a place in cigar-chomping newsrooms where women were often seen as unsuited to the gritty work of real reporting. “I’ve come to appreciate her as a feminist from a generation before feminism was identified,” her son said. When she started as a reporter at the Detroit Free Press in 1950, Taylor literally had no seat in the all-male newsroom. She was given a gluepot, a typewriter and a cubbyhole on another floor. “A new…
- A Simple Matter of Justice, Barbara Hackman Franklin, Catherine East, Jean Sharley Taylor, Vera Glaser
A Matter of Simple Justice
I have been re-reading this wonderful book, A Matter of Simple Justice. Here is a link to a website for the book. The book is about Barbara Hackman Franklin and her pioneering work in the Nixon Administration, along with several other government women. It is a good read and the research from primary sources is outstanding. I hope to track down some of the clips listed in the notes. My favorite parts of the book are about journalist Vera Glaser – whose work often ran in the women’s pages – and longtime government employee Catherine East – who often worked behind the scenes to sneak news to women’s page editors.…
