?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fd-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu%2F18501%2F&rft.title=%E2%80%9CTry+to+Lift+Someone+Else+as+We+Climb%E2%80%9D%3A+120+Years+of+the+Women%E2%80%99s+Press+Club+of+Pittsburgh+and+the+Women%E2%80%99s+Movement&rft.creator=Carter+Olson%2C+Candi+S.&rft.description=In+1891%2C+the+Women%E2%80%99s+Press+Club+of+Pittsburgh+met+in+the+offices+of+the+old+Pittsburgh+Commercial+Gazette+for+the+first+time.+Over+the+next+120+years%2C+the+women+comprising+this+club+found+places+for+women+in+the+public+sphere+by+opening+doors+for+newswomen.+The+clubwomen+thus+actively+challenged+widely+held+conventions+about+feminine+limitations%2C+and%2C+as+Hazel+Garland%2C+one+of+the+club%E2%80%99s+few+African+American+members+and+the+first+woman+managing+editor+of+The+Pittsburgh+Courier%2C+said%2C+they+reached+behind+and+pulled+up+those+women+who+came+after+them.+WPCP+members+flew+in+hot+air+balloons%2C+covered+both+WWI+and+WWII%2C+funded+scholarships+for+younger+women%2C+stood+up+to+racism+within+their+own+ranks%2C+and+were+some+of+the+first+women+to+enter+post-game+locker+rooms+with+male+sports+reporters.+Some+activists+in+the+women%E2%80%99s+movement+have+called+newswomen+traitors+for+adhering+to+masculine+frames+of+news+coverage+that+dictate+covering+%E2%80%9Cboth+sides%E2%80%9D+of+an+issue%2C+which+sometimes+means+highlighting+and+publicizing+an+anti-women%E2%80%99s+rights+viewpoint+in+a+story.+However%2C+this+dissertation+argues+that+mainstream+female+reporters+should+be+considered+in+the+stream+of+the+broader+women%E2%80%99s+movement.++Conventional+presswomen%2C+even+those+who+worked+on+the+widely+excoriated+woman%E2%80%99s+pages%2C+often+were+the+voice+of+the+women%E2%80%99s+movement+for+a+mainstream+audience.+While+alternative+presses+preached+to+the+converted%2C+mass-audience+presses+persuaded+the+everyday+person+of+the+acceptability+of+previously+unconventional+ideas.+By+actively+presenting+themselves+as+the+harbingers+of+change%2C+seeking+out+and+reporting+issues+of+importance+to+the+women%E2%80%99s+movement%2C+and+creating+opportunities+for+women%E2%80%99s+professional+advancement+within+the+journalism+profession%2C+women%E2%80%99s+press+clubs+like+the+WPCP+made+themselves+an+important+resource+for+spreading+activist+ideology+far+and+wide.+Through+the+use+of+archival+and+oral+history+evidence%2C+this+dissertation+shows+how+one+of+the+United+States%E2%80%99+longest-lived+women%E2%80%99s+press+clubs%2C+the+Women%E2%80%99s+Press+Club+of+Pittsburgh%2C+challenged+conventions+and+gave+voice+to+the+nascent+women%E2%80%99s+movement%2C+even+as+its+members+were+apparently+observing+the+dictates+of+the+male-dominated+news+establishment.&rft.date=2013-09-28&rft.type=University+of+Pittsburgh+ETD&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.language=en&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fd-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu%2F18501%2F1%2Ffull_draft_finished_with_edits_2_fixed.pdf&rft.identifier=++Carter+Olson%2C+Candi+S.++(2013)+%E2%80%9CTry+to+Lift+Someone+Else+as+We+Climb%E2%80%9D%3A+120+Years+of+the+Women%E2%80%99s+Press+Club+of+Pittsburgh+and+the+Women%E2%80%99s+Movement.++Doctoral+Dissertation%2C+University+of+Pittsburgh.++++(Unpublished)++