Eleanor Clift, whose long journalism career began with the 1970 legal fight by women journalists for equal salaries and responsibilities in newsrooms, will be part of the June 5 panel to talk about “Tales for the Fight for Equal Rights for Women Journalists.”
Clift will replace Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., who said she could not attend because of a scheduling conflict. Admission is free for members and is $5 for nonmembers. Register online.
Clift will join Ann Crittenden, a Fortune Magazine researcher in 1970 who repeatedly saw her interviews with major news figures published under a man’s byline, was paid far less and had not hope of advancement. She was part of a group of her female colleagues secretly gathering signatures to file a complaint with the New York State Division of Human Rights.
At the time, Clift was in the Atlanta bureau of Newsweek Magazine, working as a Girl Friday assistant. She said the “women in New York argued on my behalf that I was doing reporting and not getting paid for it. They helped embolden me to ask for one of the internships made possible for women working at the magazine then.”
Clift later became White House correspondent for Newsweek after covering Jimmy Carter’s campaign, and was a key member of the magazine’s election team. She also was a panelist on the long-running syndicated talk show, “The McLaughlin Group.”
She now is a columnist for the Daily Beast, an online publication where she writes about politics and culture.
The program is sponsored by the Club’s History and Heritage Team and cosponsored by American Heritage Magazine, edited by team member Edwin Grosvenor. Club Vice President Emily Wilkins will moderate.
