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The following is excerpted from the CBC interview with Linda Kay, author of The Sweet Sixteen:
Before women could vote in Canada, or were even considered "persons" under the law, there was the Canadian Women's Press Club. It was created by a group of female journalists who were sent to cover the World's Fair in St. Louis, in 1904.
Linda Kay, who teaches journalism at Montreal's Concordia University, tells the story of the 16 reporters who formed the influential organization in her new book, The Sweet Sixteen: The Journey That Inspired the Canadian Women's Press Club.
Kay said she became interested in the club's story when she started teaching a course called "Gender and Journalism." "I was doing a lot of research for that class, and I found that there was going to be a 100th anniversary party of the Canadian Women's Press Club in 2004 ," she explained to Sonali Karnick, host of All in a Weekend, in a recent interview. "And I said, 'what is this club?'" Kay had never even heard of it, but she decided that she had to attend the celebration and find out more.
She attended the anniversary party, on a June weekend in Ottawa in 2004, and took along some of her students to film it, thinking she would use the video in class. But what she heard about the club stuck with her. "This was the story of how, when women did not have the same rights as men, there were a handful of very top-flight women journalists working at the time, in the early 1900s, and they were very upset and appalled that they didn't have the same rights as pressmen to travel on the railway, which gave free passage to the men," Kay explained.
One of the women journalists complained to the publicity director of the Canadian Pacific Railway about the unequal treatment. "She said, 'You take these men to the World's Fair in St. Louis, why don't you take the women?'
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