Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1883 — WOMEN AS EDITORS. [ARTICLE]

WOMEN AS EDITORS.

Philadelphia Press: Considering that so many more men than women are in a position to display their abilities, the number of successful women is by comparison scarcely to be counted small. As to the question of ability to manage a newspaper, Miss Booth, who is both managing editor and leading editorial writer of Harper’s Bazar, and who ha.< made that journal the brilliant success which it is, has clearly demonstrated that it is not altogether a matter of sex. Very few men are capable of managing a great newspaper, most journalists admitting that it is one of the most difficult positions which an editor can fill, a post which requires tact, talent and training, as well as executive ability in the highest degree.