Happy 100th Birthday 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. Women journalists, such as my great-great aunt Miriam Michelson, helped the cause by keeping it in the news. Journalism was a non-traditional career for women then. Here are lessons from Aunt Miriam's stellar career.
This was a time when being a journalist was a non-traditional field for women. Yet, she was very successful, a celebrity of her day even.: Aunt Miriam leveraged her writing and reporting talents, network, platforms, and her “brand” to shine a spotlight on the issues she thought were important, such as women’s rights and social justice.: To stand out, Aunt Miriam found creative ways to cover topics, including once writing a news story in verse, and using her fiction address controversial issues.
: The way Miriam found a way around the limitations for women, reminds me Aunt Miriam’s story reminds me of my interview with diversity expert, Laura Liswood, who described said when you are in “the non-dominant” role, you have to find another way to get things done, because the system is not on your side. One of Aunt Miriam’s fictional reporter women was told by her editor that a man had to accompany her to cover a story, for example.
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