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Eleanor Roosevelt Knitting
Photographic print, by Acme Newspicture, 1932
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
 

 Eleanor Roosevelt held her own press conferences, but only allowed female reporters to attend. This clever move, begun in 1933, effectively forced newspapers to hire more women journalists, giving them opportunities in political reporting they had long been denied.