Personal History

Women's Rights

Unenlightened

Mrs. Graham's education included consciousness-raising on the role of women. She admittedly grew from ignorance:

EVEN MORE REVEALING OF MY OLD-FASHIONED attitudes was an interview I did with Women's Wear Daily as late as 1969. Overall, the piece reads perfectly sensibly, except on the topic of women in the workplace, about which I was grossly insensitive. The report portrays me with the editors in the unconsciously sexist way then taken for granted:

... Kay Graham joins in the by-play, but does not dominate it, preferring to let the men, an assertive group, play the starring roles. It is a small slice of her life, one in which assertive, strong-willed men have played a major part . . .

""I rely on Fritz's [Beebe, chairman of the board of NEWSWEEK and chairman of The Washington Post Company]--and other men's--judgment in every decision.'' . . .