Women -- Employment -- United States; Women -- Social and moral questions
Following the lead of the _Revolution_ and the _Woman’s Journal_ there
are many others; some as out-and-out suffrage papers, and others
covering more broadly the circle of woman’s industrial and social
interests. In the East, the van among these is led by the _Woman’s
Magazine_, published by Mrs. Esther T. Housh at Brattleboro, Vermont.
Mrs. Housh began its publication originally at Lexington, Kentucky,
under the title of _Woman at Work_. In the south is the _Woman’s
Chronicle_ of Little Rock, Arkansas. In the far West are the _Queen Bee_
of Denver, Colorado, the _Woman’s Tribune_ of Beatrice, Nebraska, and
the _New Northwest_ of Portland, Oregon,—all owned and edited by women.
Those in the nearer West are too many to specify. With these, widely
differing yet in one sense kindred to them, should be named _The Woman’s
Exponent_, the official organ of the Woman’s Association of Utah. It is
edited by Emmeline B. Wells, and carries the motto “The Rights of the
Women of Zion, and the Rights of the Women of all Nations.” The
association which publishes it claims a membership of 22,000 women,
“thoroughly organized for the relief of the poor, and for medical,
philosophical, historical, and religious study.”
The Pacific slope has had comparatively few women journalists, but the
names of several appear upon the roll of membership of the lately formed
Central and Northern California Press Association.
The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union has within the last four or five
years multiplied greatly the number of women engaged in the practical
work of journalism. Beginning with the _Union Signal_, founded by Mrs.
Matilda B. Carse in Chicago, they have started up in almost every State
of the Union, and many local papers have W. C. T. U. departments, all
edited by women.
The vital interest of working women in the vexed problems of the
relation between capital and labor has called into existence at least
one paper, the _Working Woman_. This is the organ of the Woman’s
National Industrial League. It is published in Washington, D. C., by
Mrs. Charlotte Smith, who long ago proved her editorial ability in St.
Louis. Miss Mary F. Seymour has, more recently, established in New York
the _Business Woman’s Journal_, which from its initial number has
carried the prestige of success in its chosen field. Miss Fanny M. Earl,
of the _Hartford Insurance Journal_ has made her name widely known in
business circles all over the country, and aided in conquering their
respect for woman’s practical abilities.
Our Anglo-African sisters are awakening to a comprehension of the use of
the press as an instrument of value to themselves and their race. The
names of half a dozen who have been or are now in editorial charge of
race papers are well known, and at least a score of others who are
actively engaged in journalism. A few of them have been employed as
reporters or as special contributors on some of the leading dailies in
our great seaboard cities.
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