is the senior associate dean and Reynolds professor in business journalism, also at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism. Gilger recently told The FBomb about what she found in the process of writing the book. Kristin Grady Gilger:
Between us, we have four daughters, all of whom are at the beginning stages of their careers, and we hear a lot about their experiences in the workplace — experiences that are echoed by many of the other young women whom we have taught and mentored over the years. We were struck by how many of these young women still face the same kinds of challenges that we did. And we knew they could learn from the women who came before them about how to survive and even thrive in male-dominated workplaces.
At the beginning of the project, we drew up a list of every female leader in media we could think of — and it was a really long list. Then we just started emailing and calling. We weren’t at all sure what the response would be.
The wonder is that we didn’t think of it sooner. A number of the women we interviewed talked about crying at work — about heading to the women’s restroom or the parking lot to have a good cry because they didn’t feel they could show weakness in the workplace. I do think that’s changing somewhat, though.
The suits cracked open the doors for women, and we began entering the news business in large numbers in the 1970s and 1980s. What we had to deal with was pretty outrageous. Women at, for example, weren’t considered reporter material; they were assigned to male reporters as assistants and fact-checkers.
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