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Article: The Chicago Tribune Carol Kleiman Worklife column: Columnist encouraged by worker gains, especially women's, hopes for more.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- January 31, 2006
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Byline: Carol Kleiman
Jan. 31--Four decades ago, when I was a part-time copy editor and freelance writer for the Chicago Tribune, a suburban wife of an executive and mother of three children, the features editor of the Tribune called me. He had noticed something unusual: Women were going to work!
He said as he rode on his commuter train he actually saw women going into downtown Chicago, not to shop but to work. Would I cover this revolution, would I write the column, Working Woman, that he had dreamed up, the first of its kind in the U.S.? And to convince me, he sagely pointed out that I was living it.
"Absolutely," I said, though I assured him ...