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Journalism and the Women's Rights Movement

Had it not been for the work of great women such at these, the women's rights movement may never have been established. These women used the power of the press to expand their message and to prove that they could handle a job and family. Their efforts inspired many other women to help win equality for them. Many great women were prominent in the movement. However, it was only a certain assembly, which helped the movement through their work in journalism that truly allowed the message to be spread.
             Women found it necessary to work with their male counterparts to prove that equality does exist in a man's world. Women such as Sally Jory, who five years after the Civil War, as an 18-year-old girl, obtained a position on the Boston Herald. Jory went from the Boston Post to the Herald were she had her own society column. " I wanted to be treated like a man," Jory commented (Ross 1). Sally's message was one that encapsulated everything that women were fighting for. She pushed her way in to a man's world and helped open the field of journalism to all women. She was one of the first of many women to use the media to express her need to be equal. .
             In 1894, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin joined Sally Jory as another writer in the 1800's, by being named editor of the monthly "Woman's Era" publication. Included in this was news of the Black Women's Club movement, legislation and family life issues (Legacy "98 5). A year later Elizabeth Cady Stanton published the first volume of The Women's Bible, in which she revised biblical passages that degraded women (5). .
             Following in the footsteps of the great women before her, Sara Hale was offered an editorial position on a new monthly magazine exclusively for women. "The Ladies Magazine", as it was called, was to be the forerunner of many designed to give women the special kind of help and encouragement they needed" (Fryatt 24). Magazines were a less formal way for women to share ideas and learn about each other.


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