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Women of the Times: Radcliffe Rampant At WOMEN OFTHETIMES RADCLIFFE RAMPANT AT THE NEW YORK TIMES Gray Lady ofJournalism Acquires Crimson Tinge by NARDI REEDER CAMPION Year: 1963. do now. Before the 1978 suit, not a single woman was head of a Place: National Press Club (for male members only). department at the Times. Cloday women are everywhere. Yes, I Speaker: Secretary of State Dean Rusk. am a feminist." Downstairs Ballroom: Newsmen and guests luxuriate over lun­ "It was a momentOus decision, histOric," says Alessandra cheon, enjoying guest speaker. Upstairs Balcony: Newswomen Stanley, who was enjoying Paris in the 20s-her 20s. "But I stand squeezed tOgether, lunchless, straining to hear the speak­ was blissfully ignorant of it. I sat at the feet of Flora Lewis, er they are assigned to cover. then in Paris as the Times's only woman foreign correspondent, This scene was described at length in The Girls in the Bakony: and later Nan Robertson became a friend. Both showed me Womm, Mm, and The New York Times, by former Times re­ one woman can make a difference." porter Nan Robertson. Today, after a long struggle, women are "The suit caused the Times to think of women in different out of the balcony and onto the masthead of the Times, a paper ways," Linda Greenhouse says, "and I was very much a benefi­ that rarely allowed a woman reporter in its city room before ciary of all that. I was only 27 when I got a chance to cover the World War II, and not readily afterward. governor of New York and the legislature. Two years later I was A surprising number of Harvard-Radcliffe women have led the first woman bureau chief in Albany. Without that litigation or benefited from this palace revolution, including assistant it wouldn't have happened." managing editOr Soma Golden Behr '61 and former national "People forget how bad it was for women in journalism," editOr Linda McVeigh Mathews '67, J.D. '72. Martha Alice says Soma Golden Behr. "In the early 60s the Wall Street Jour­ Greenough '74, J.D. '77, is assistant treasurer. Linda Green­ nal would not hire a woman. I was hired from Business u,cek in house '68 is the Supreme Court reporter. Al ison Mitchell '76, 1973 when the Times was beginning to look for women. Three lanny Scott '77, Alessandra Stanley '77, Susan Chira '80, Celia years later I had my fi rst child and tOok a whole year off from Dugger '80, and Constance Laibe Hays '83 are also tOp re­ the paper. I returned about the time the suit was settled. porters; Sarah Boxer '80 writes, edits, and does drawings. There were no women in tOp jobs then-now the pipeline at That's 11 and still counting. the Times is full of women. When I've been in contention with Dead chauvinists who once manned (literally) America's a man for a job and everything else is equal, I believe being a most revered newspaper must be revolving in their graves. woman has helped me." Women at the tOp of their male bastion! How did it happen? Max Frankel, longtime executive editOr of the Times, sees it differently. "Soma Golden Behr," he says fla tl y, "is without he trailblazers were a group of pioneering news­ doubt one of the most creative editOrs now active in our profes­ paperwomen who, like Susan B. Anthony, had sion. Under her leadership, our national news coverage moved "starch in their souls." Their campaign culminat­ far beyond the normal preoccupations with disasters and fo ­ ed in a class-action sex discrimination suit against cused on the human dramas of American life." the paper in 1974. Four years of bitter conflict en­ "My greatest responsibility," Behr wrote for her 25th reun­ sued. In 1978 the Times finally settled for $350,000. Back pay ion report, "[is to] have the courage to dare new things after given the women employees averaged a mere $454.54 per per­ succeeding so clearly in the old ones." At 55 she is known as son, but the women had gained access. Their lawsuit caused a "the first woman everything" at the New York Times. In 22 years seismic switch in policy that still reverberates at the paper. she has gone from business reporter, to editOr of the Sunday When that histOric upheaval occurred, Susan Chira was a business section, to member of the Times editO ri al board, to na­ sophomore reporter on the Harvard Crimson. "In coll ege I tional editOr, to assistant managing editor. In 1993 she was didn't understand the need for solidarity with other women-I given responsibility for the "Business," "Education," "Media," S6 H ARVA RD M AGAZINE and "Week in Rev'iew" sections, and now has new responsibili­ the competition for membership. The comments I saw later ty for major reporting projects. A warm-hearted woman. who were really awful vis-a-vis women." looks out for others, there is nothing pliable about her profes­ Linda Mathews smashed a Crimson gender barrier in 1966 sion al metrle. when she was elected its first female managing editor. Today "Yes," she says, "it makes a difference that women now at­ she and her son Joseph '95 can boast of being the first mother­ tend the 4:30 meeting when the editors decide what to put on son M.E. combo in the paper's history, but 30 years ago some page one the next day. There were times when 1 was alone and Cri.mson men dubbed her Mother Cobra, and her male coun­ felt I had a duty of a sort to present an alternative view. Some­ terpart at the Yale Daily News challenged her to a game of times it takes an oddball voice to push an idea along." jacks. "The Crimson was my salvation," she says. "I was a lonely kid from California, the first in my family to go to co l­ Ost of these powerful newswomen catapulted lege. The Crimson was the only place at Harvard where I felt into their places of power from the Crimson comfortable. It's the best jounialism school going- and it's springboard; yet the Crimson once harbored an where I met my husband" [Thomas Jay Mathews II '67, A.M. anti-female virus as virulent as that at the '71). Linda went on to join the Los Angeles Times and became Times. "When I joined the Crimson," Behr its chief "China-watcher"; she and Jay, then the Washington Msays, "it was a scary place dedicated to maleness. They didn't Post's China correspondent, opened the Beijing bureaus for 'make nice'-they dumped on some women. The men hung their respective papers. She came to the New York Times in out in the Upper Sanctum and kept a secret book on people in 1993 from ABC News to succeed Soma Golden Behr as na- SEPT E~ mER-OGroBER 1995 57 WOMEN OF THE TIMES continued tional editor, a post she held until this July. She is presently chatted with some of these women over lunch at a awaiting reassignment. French restaurant near the Times. They are smart; they When Linda Greenhouse was made the Crimson's features are curious; they laugh easily; they listen intently; they editor, a disgruntled male was heard to mutter, "All you need seem genuinely admiring of each other. And they would to be an editor of this rag is to be named Linda." In a 1982 not be where they are if they weren't competitive. The Harvard Gazette article titled "Separate, Inseparable Worlds," competition at the top of the New York Times is awesome. Greenhouse aired her feelings about the Harvard-Radcliffe di­ I interviewed Linda Greenhouse at the Times's Washington chotomy and her outsider status at the Crimson. "I introduced bureau. With her big glasses and wide smile, she was a familiar myself to a new summer intern in my office," she wrote. face from public television's "Washington Week in Review." A young-looking 48, her modesty is disarming. How does she "I hear you 're at Radcliffe," 1 said innocently. "I went there, too." "Oh, did you call it Radcliffe?" was the breezy reply. "To us, it's all achieve such breathtaking clarity in reporting complex Su­ Harvard now." preme Court decisions? Simple: "I write for the person I was That curt dismissal of a not-very-distant-past still rankles. Yes, before I spent a year in law school and years covering the court. dear, there really was a time when Harvard merely tolerated its If that person understands it, everyone will." modest quota of women, a time when we were welcomed unre- Greenhouse has turned down offers of bigger jobs at the Times because she relishes life in Washington with her hus­ band, Gene Fidell, LL.B. '68, and their daughter, Hannah, a fifth-grader. "I once had aspira­ tions to cover national politics," she wrote in her 25th reunion report, "but put them aside as incompatible with the family life I wanted." In 1989 the Times named her "senior writ­ er," a category created to recog­ nize reporters who have chosen to keep writing instead of going into management. She contin­ ues to garner accolades for her work. Earlier this summer, her analysis of decisions by the Rehnquist Court filled almost the entire front page of the "Week in Review." Susan Chira joined the Crim­ son as a freshman and loved it. "But," she adds, "you have to be robust to embrace Harvard­ it's not for everybody.
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