Marie Anderson
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Sisters of ’77
Today I am going to watch the film, Sisters of ’77. Here is background about the historic conference in Houston, the first federally funded U.S. National Women’s Conference. I am watching it in preparation for going through the papers of Kay Clarenbach at the University of Wisconsin next month. Kay was the director of the conference. Women’s page editors Marie Anderson, Dorothy Jurney and Marjorie Paxson attended the conference as delegates. Jurney and Paxson would go on to edit the official report to the president. It was just another example of the interaction of women’s page journalism and feminism.
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More Women Without Children
The Miami Herald had this interesting column about the number of women who do not have children. According to the Pew Report, today, nearly 20 percent of women end their child bearing years without biological children, compared to 10 percent in 1976, a new Pew Research Center report shows. The columnist notes, “Researchers believe public attitudes have changed, putting less pressure on women to get married and bear children.” “The fact that nearly one in five women does not have a child of her own is an enormous transformation from the past,” says D’Vera Cohn, coauthor of the Pew report, More Women Without Children. Many of the women’s page editors…
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More Women Without Children
The Miami Herald had this interesting column about the number of women who do not have children. According to the Pew Report, today, nearly 20 percent of women end their child bearing years without biological children, compared to 10 percent in 1976, a new Pew Research Center report shows. The columnist notes, “Researchers believe public attitudes have changed, putting less pressure on women to get married and bear children.” “The fact that nearly one in five women does not have a child of her own is an enormous transformation from the past,” says D’Vera Cohn, coauthor of the Pew report, More Women Without Children. Many of the women’s page editors…
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Catherine East oral history & Anderson reference
I am going over more of the Catherine East oral history that I found a few months ago. (Catherine was an influential, behind-the-scenes feminist leader who worked with the media.) This is the reference I referred to earlier about women’s page editor Marie Anderson. Pg 199: In response to a question about the Task Force on Women and the delay by the White House publishing it until April 1970 although it had been completed for months. Catherine: East “It was actually published by the Miami Herald before that. The White House held up our report. Libby Koontz finally persuaded the White House to release it in time for her Women’s…
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Catherine East oral history & Anderson reference
I am going over more of the Catherine East oral history that I found a few months ago. (Catherine was an influential, behind-the-scenes feminist leader who worked with the media.) This is the reference I referred to earlier about women’s page editor Marie Anderson. Pg 199: In response to a question about the Task Force on Women and the delay by the White House publishing it until April 1970 although it had been completed for months. Catherine: East “It was actually published by the Miami Herald before that. The White House held up our report. Libby Koontz finally persuaded the White House to release it in time for her Women’s…
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Catherine East oral history
I recently found an oral history conducted with Catherine East. Catherine was an influential behind-the-scenes government employee who helped improve the media’s coverage of women’s issues. I have gone through her papers at the Schlesinger Library in Boston twice but did not know about the oral history which I just received through ILL. Today I am skimming through the 300+ history looking for media references. On page 199, Catherine mentioned Vera Glaser and Marie Anderson. (Vera was a Washington wire service reporter whose stories ran in the women’s pages. Marie was the women’s page editor at the Miami Herald.) The three worked together on women’s issues – especially publicizing the…
