In the 1970s, Ottawa Journal women's editor Betty Sarsfield led a protest in front of the newly-minted National Press Club of Canada in Ottawa. She and fellow women journalists picketed outside the press club because women -- still -- were not allowed to be members. They could be signed in and drink, eat, dance and play with the boys, but they couldn't be card carrying members of the club. I was shocked when Betty told me the story when I arrived on the scene in the late 70s. As a child of the Sixties, I had been hand raised on feminism ideals. I knew the feminist mantras by rote. I embraced the romance of it all. I became a true believer. Obviously, I was living in a dream world created by Mad Men. "You've come a long way, baby," the television screamed while women in bouffant hairstyles smoked their own elegant cigarettes. Women on my television were burning their bras, taking pharmaceuticals to make still their babymakers and shedding their g...
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