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Apr 10, 2011 · No Job for a Woman: The Women Who Fought to Report WWII. Follows reporters Ruth Cowan, Martha Gellhorn, and Dickey Chapelle as they circumvent restrictions and prohibitions placed on female reporters by U.S. government during WWII and push their reporting to focus on the human cost of war.
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- Documentary
- Michele Midori Fillion
- 2011-04-10
This film -- supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities -- profiles three women journalists who covered World War II at a time when women were largely kept from the...
- 5 min
- 1960
- NEHgov
NO JOB FOR A WOMAN. When American female reporters fought and won access to cover the war, there was another battle to fight: Women would be banned from the frontlines, prevented from covering Front Page stories, and assigned “woman’s angle” stories.
“No Job For a Woman”: The Women Who Fought to Report WWII tells this story through the lives and work of wire service reporter Ruth Cowan, magazine reporter Martha Gellhorn, and war photographer Dickey Chapelle.
When World War II broke out, reporter Martha Gellhorn was so determined to get to the frontlines that she left husband Ernest Hemingway, never to be reunited. Ruth Cowan’s reporting was hampered by a bureau chief who refused to talk to her.
Follows reporters Ruth Cowan, Martha Gellhorn, and Dickey Chapelle as they circumvent restrictions and prohibitions placed on female reporters by U.S. government during WWII and push their reporting to focus on the human cost of war.
- 61 min
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In the fall of 1943, female reporters were finally accredited to report the war from war zones, but with specific restrictions. They could not go to the frontlines nor have access to press briefings or Jeeps, and they were to report on the activities of female military personnel only.
