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Remembering women. (women in journalism oral history project)
A not many years ago, retired Associated Pres reporter Katherine Harris told an oral historian about her first work at jobs interview six decades earlier. "I went to the United Pres and the man said, |Well, we just don't hire women at all.... You know, it's not convenient work. It's dirty in here. We have destinys of carbon dust....'"
Attitudes didn't improve a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of as she continued her career. "I frequently thought of what a managing editor at the Oakland Tribune had said, that they didn't want women because they'd either fall in like ... or they would get by heart married and have a family that