I will say that when I got into radio, I was The Chick. I was either the first woman on the air at that station, or they had a female jock - mostly on the overnights, and then I'd come in for morning drive and handle the news with the (always male) morning jock. That was in the mid-late 70s when stations started needing to hire women. They had to be able to "check that box." Because the FCC was watching and the women's movement was attracting a lot of attention and making a lot of waves, and it was kind of unavoidable. I happened to come along at just the perfect time that I got hired. I was the anomaly on staff. And often it was easier to "check that box" with a morning news lady teamed up with the morning jock, so you eventually saw women gaining an increasingly high profile along those lines - what with Robin Quivers with Howard Stern, and Rick Dees locally had a couple of women in succession on with him in the morning, doing the news. But women were an anomaly. It was still mostly an all-boys club. Not anymore! Women have thoroughly penetrated the on-air arena in news and information programming. Used to be it wasn't like that.
Well, someday maybe we'll look back at Presidential politics and say the same thing - "used to be it wasn't like that."
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