National Press Club Admits Women Reporters
The National Press Club on this day voted 227–56 to admit women after a “brief but boisterous” debate.
The Women’s National Press Club had recently voted 104–0 to admit men.
The battle over women in journalism was not over, however. On September 26, 1972, the ACLU sued the San Francisco Press Club over its exclusion of women.
Read About the Struggles of Women Reporters at the New York Times: Nan Robertson, The Girls in the Balcony (1992)
Learn more: June O. Nicholson, et al., eds, The Edge of Change: Women in the Twenty-First Century Press (2009)
Learn more about women reporters and publishers: https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/womenwithdeadlines/wwd1.htm
And about famous women journalists: https://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/journalists
For a great perspective on the “long Sixties:” Tom Hayden, The Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama (2009)