The Sandbox

While women have made significant and substantial contributions to the journalism profession, their hard work is often overlooked and undervalued. This lack of recognition has been a trend since journalism became recognized as a profession. Looking at specific examples of women from the past 200 years, this pattern is a clear part of women in the newsroom. While the women in newsrooms faced significant challenges on the basis of gender, each woman was able to challenge the norms of society at the time and encourage social progress to be made by advocating for important changes to society.

As journalism has evolved over the years, it has become more common for women to establish their careers in newsrooms. Despite this, women still face adversity on the basis of gender to this day. Although women have proved throughout the course of history that they are capable writers who can spark tremendous social progress, many women are still denied the credit they deserve for their contributions to society through the newsroom. While this lack of credit certainly presents some adversity, the women working in newsrooms have managed to rise above it for decades to challenge the norms of society and expose injustice.

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