A Place in the News From the Women's Pages to the Front Page

Mills's personal accounts include those of breaking into the news business in the 1930s, wartime opportunities during the early 1940s and 1950s, lingering prejudice in the 1960s, and successes during the past two decades. She describes how today's women journalists have reached their current positions and argues that the increased presence of women reporters is having an important impact on the kind of news that appears in daily papers. Special attention is brought to the fact that the growing number of women in newspaper journalism now face a kind of "glass ceiling" - they still have not reached top positions as editors and publishers as often as their present numbers warrant.