my interview with Donna Halper today

[A Joseph Ross]

On 1/7/2013 5:17 PM, Donna Halper wrote:

> Au contraire, mon frere.  Many of us were interested, but we were told 
> we could not be on the air.  At Emerson (I did their history for their 
> alumni magazine), until about 1967, it was even a written policy that 
> women could only do fashion or cooking or children's programs, or as 
> the manual so quaintly stated, "programs suitable to their 
> interests."  And all Program Directors were to only be male.  
> Northeastern had similar policies, although not necessarily spelled 
> out in writing.  It was a tradition that men with big deep voices were 
> on the air, and "girls" were music librarians or ran errands for the 
> program director.  I challenged that, and I found out later that I was 
> not the first to try.  I was just, for whatever reason, the first that 
> succeeded...

And as I recall Louise Morgan was similarly restricted on what she did 
on air.

Then again there were radio shows on the network in which women had very 
different roles, such as "Wendy Warren and the News," about a female 
radio news reporter.  And let's not forget Lois Lane, though it often 
seemed that her main role was to be rescued by Superman. There was also 
a strong woman on The Lone Ranger on radio who owned a ranch, had a male 
ranch foreman who worked for her, and was the LR's friend.

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