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How to Stir up a Hornets' Nest: Studying the Implications of Women Journalism Majors

How to Stir up a Hornets' Nest: Studying the Implications of Women Journalism Majors

How to stir up a hornets' nest: Studying the implications of women journalism majors
Maurine H.Beasley, University of Maryland

Two decades ago, as the only tenured woman at the University of Maryland College of Journalism, I found myself reviled and humiliated, not so much by educators as by journalists, because I directed a study that looked at the shift in journalism enrollments from predominantly male to predominantly female. It was published under a ponderous title that hardly indicated its potential for controversy, The New Majority: A Look at What the Preponderance of Women in Journalism Education Means to the Schools and to the Professions (Beasley & Theus, 1988). Today, when newspapers are wondering ...

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