I was saddened to hear of the sudden death of pioneering journalist and author Kay Mills. She wrote the most significant book about women in journalism. It’s called A Place in the News: From the Women’s Pages to the Front Pages. It was my first knowledge of women’s pages and changed the course of my research agenda. According to her obit: “Mills was driven to write “A Place in the News” because, she told the New York Times some years ago, “I was trying to sort out why this profession I cared so much about really didn’t return the favor for women — and I might add, minorities — for…

I was saddened to hear of the sudden death of pioneering journalist and author Kay Mills. She wrote the most significant book about women in journalism. It’s called A Place in the News: From the Women’s Pages to the Front Pages. It was my first knowledge of women’s pages and changed the course of my research agenda. According to her obit: “Mills was driven to write “A Place in the News” because, she told the New York Times some years ago, “I was trying to sort out why this profession I cared so much about really didn’t return the favor for women — and I might add, minorities — for…