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Women Get to the Front: Female Journalists in Wartime
Overview:
A good introduction to discussing women's struggle to be accepted in the profession of journalism, this lesson sensitizes students to the issues involved and the conditions and barriers encountered by women in that field, especially during wartime.
Time Frame: 3-4 hours
Objectives:
- Read and answer questions about the early involvement of women in newspaper journalism.
- Research basic information about how women broke into journalism.
- Look at the photographic journalism of prominent female reporters.
- Research and describe six important female journalists.
- Prepare a group report on a female journalist and present the report to the class along with samples of that person's work.
Extensions:
- Have students look at the photographs of these women and discuss, for example, the issue of objectivity and censorship in wartime reporting, i.e. Should the atrocities of war be shown? By showing them do we glorify violence or do we contribute to putting an end to it? Can photographs be totally objective? etc.
- Arrange for the class to see a photographic exhibit or use the Web site war photographs, and then talk to students about whether they thought they were an accurate depiction. This could be a valuable way to introduce students to the important topic of truthfulness in photographic representation, the idea of taking up photography, as well as developing critical skills of images.
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