When Barbara Mikulski was sworn in for her fifth term last week, she will have served in the Senate for more time than the previous longest-serving female senator, Republican Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, who represented Maine for 24 years. She served until 1973. I interviewed Sen. Mikulski for this story for the revived women’s pages of the Chicago Tribune several years ago. What I loved about writing for the women’s pages is that sources knew that my approach would be female-friendly.

Why Broadsheet’s Demise Isn’t Progress : Ms Magazine Blog In the 1970′s, women’s liberation movement leaders called for the end of the women’s pages, arguing that women’s news should be on the front pages and in the news sections. It was a great idea in theory but it failed in practice. Newspapers responded by replacing women’s pages with lifestyle or entertainment sections, but they didn’t increase coverage of women’s issues

Why Broadsheet’s Demise Isn’t Progress : Ms Magazine Blog In the 1970′s, women’s liberation movement leaders called for the end of the women’s pages, arguing that women’s news should be on the front pages and in the news sections. It was a great idea in theory but it failed in practice. Newspapers responded by replacing women’s pages with lifestyle or entertainment sections, but they didn’t increase coverage of women’s issues

Thank You, Justice Scalia, for Helping Revive the ERA : Ms Magazine Blog

Thank You, Justice Scalia, for Helping Revive the ERA : Ms Magazine Blog