Passing Images

Sun., March 16, 1997

A group of women at The Spokesman-Review is studying how women are portrayed in the newspaper. Members of this women’s committee examined newspapers from their childhood years and compared them with newspapers that appeared on their most recent birth dates. Here are essays from staff writers Karen Dorn Steele, 53, Alison Boggs, 29, and Jennifer Plunkett, 24.

Next week, we’ll run three more essays exploring women’s images in the newspaper, past and present. , DataTimes MEMO: See 3 essays under headlines “Athlete searched for role models”, “You can lose it all”, and “A father’s influence fills in where the media cannot”

See 3 essays under headlines “Athlete searched for role models”, “You can lose it all”, and “A father’s influence fills in where the media cannot”

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