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24. Juni 2013 · 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...
- 5 Min.
- 1938
- NEHgov
Women reporters during WWII were told war reporting was No Job For a Woman. Buy the DVD, available for purchase from Women Make Movies, to find out how these women over came the restrictions and created a new way of telling the story of war.
10. Apr. 2011 · 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
“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.
The women who fought to report WWII America’s armed forces accredited 127 women correspondents in World War II. Accreditation acted as contract: The Army or Navy transported correspondents into war zones, fed and sheltered them, and sent their dispatches home.
Before World War II, war reporting was considered NO JOB FOR A WOMAN. Fighting and winning access to cover the war wasn't the only battle for the women reporters as they were banned from the front lines, prevented from covering front page stories, and assigned “woman’s angle” stories.
