Gannett Co. Inc. Vol. Then there's the gender argument I had with my father when I was a teen-ager. I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life. Neither of these men meant any harm by their comments. It's just how they were brought up - how they were taught to view women.
Some stereotypes still are difficult to overcome even after years of trying.
While proofing pages for a World War II project, I noticed there were few women represented. That's when I thought that we needed to tell the story of women over the last 100 years. Our assistant managing editor of projects, Harriet Simpson, enthusiastically threw other ideas at us. We decided to interview only women to make the project more authentic. No talking heads, just women telling us how they felt.