Struggling to fly
By: Sharyn Steel
Publisher: First Edition
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Lower Hutt, N.Z.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781877534805
Subjects: Women journalists; Biography; Women editors; New Zealand Women authors; Women; Social conditions
Description: "A young woman struggles to enter the male world of general journalism in 1969. Catapulting through the changes for women in the workforce in New Zealand over the next 20 years, she breaks down barriers, and becomes involved in protests, political changes and motherhood. She experiences a secret service investigation in the 1970s and becomes a business editor in the 1980s. This is a story of her personal, professional and political challenges during that period."--Back cover.
Notes: Autobiographical account of author's struggle to enter the male world of general journalism 1969. The story of her personal, professional and political challenges during that period.