Women Correspondent in the Vietnam War

[The Rooster]

Here is a link to an interesting article.

 

https://cherrieswriter.com/2016/06/21/female-correspondents-of-the-vietnam-war/

 

First paragraphs

 

The Vietnam War was noticeably different than all other wars in American history.  Unlike World War II, Vietnam was fought in one place by mostly American soldiers.  Warfare was guerrilla-style in the jungle, not on battlefields. The Vietnam War was the biggest event of our generation. It was also the first war in American history, so accessible to reporters that they flocked to Southeast Asia in droves for a chance to be break the biggest story ever to come out of the war.

For many female reporters, they tried everything to get their employers to send them to Vietnam to cover the war. Being denied, many went on their own as freelancers paying their own way. War being an equal opportunity employer, scores of women joined the procession of men traveling as war correspondents during the 1960’s and early 1970’s.

High on the list of great unanswered questions is whether women and men, apart from physique, really differ all that much. For journalists, a spin-off question is how news coverage changes, if at all, as women more fully integrate the field.