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Title IX: The Journey Continues
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Currently, the percentage of women in daily newsrooms stands at 37.7 percent. This percentage has gone up and down since 2001 when women made up 37.35 of newsroom professionals. Minority women account for 17.55 percent, up from 17.20 percent, of the women journalists in newsrooms last year.
Source: Media Report to Women
In 1707, Henrietta Johnston begins to work as a portrait artist in Charleston,South Carolina, making her the first known professional woman artist.
Source: www.infoplease.com
In 1865 Catherine Beecher publishes the first excercise manual for women
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In 1914, Mary Davenport-Engberg became the first woman to conduct a symphony orchestra, in Bellingham, Washington.
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In 1921, American novelist Edith Wharton becomes the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. She wins the award for her novel "The Age of Innocence."
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There are 38 film festivals throughout the world dedicated solely to showing the work of women directors.
Source: Women in the Directors Chair