Daily News | Marion Steinmann, author and award-winning writer and editor for Life magazine, dies at 92
is a 328-page examination of how 191 women in Cornell’s class of 1950 fared in the workplace after graduation. Debunking the idea that women in the 1950s were overwhelmingly relegated to housework, Ms. Steinmann’s survey found that 44% of her respondents worked outside the home or attended graduate school for at least five years in that decade.
“This book should serve as a welcome reminder that the U.S. is not a uniform society, and that what holds true for many of its members by no means holds true for them all,” reviewer Piri HalaszMs. Steinmann wrote many freelance articles after she left Life about health care, medicine and other topics for New York Times Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, Smithsonian magazine, Cornell Alumni News, and other publications. She also coedited 2015′sBorn July 1, 1929, in Rochester, Ms.
The couple lived in Chestnut Hill, but she kept her apartment in New York, and they attended concerts, visited museums and were active at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, the Science and Art Club of Germantown, and the Chestnut Hill Community Association. He died in 2015. Ms. Steinmann suffered a stroke in 2015, but she continued to read and keep up with current events at Cathedral Village. “She was obviously very accomplished in her writing and her life,” said her sister, Elinor Schrader. “She was also a very supportive sister.”
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