how does publishing compare to other media when it comes to women in top level management
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Chapter 1:
The History of Women's Roles in Publishing
1a) Women's Education
Gender stereotyping and the channelling of boys and girls from an early age into jobs or professions "suited" to their sex, has played a significant role in women's struggle for equality in the workplace. In 17th and 18th century England, following the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, who was a brilliant and highly educated woman, women's education suffered a serious setback. Powerful men opposed the education of women beyond reading and writing their names. King James I, successor to Elizabeth, rejected a proposal that his daughter be given a classical education saying "To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning." Women's access to higher learning was severely restricted in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and formal education was seen as necessary only for boys; girls received instruction only in what they needed to know to be homemakers. (Whitehead, 1999, pp. )
There were strong male and female voices of dissent against the intellectual suppression of women. Prominent writer of the time, Daniel Defoe wrote:
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women ... Their youth is spent to teach them to stitch and sew, or make baubles...