Front-Page Women Journalists, 1920-1950

During a time when female reporters were almost always relegated to the society and women's pages of the newspapers, a few hundred notable women broke barriers and wrote their way onto the front pages of metropolitan newspapers. Front-Page Women Journalists, 1920-1950 takes a look at the lives and careers of women who worked successfully in this male-dominated profession.

Kathleen A. Cairns examines the roles women played in early-twentieth-century newspaper journalism and the influence th...