Chapter 3 of Rodger Streitmatter's "Voices of the Revolution: The Dissident Press in America" discusses women's rights and their self-made role in the media.
At the time of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott and Lucy Stone, many men considered feminists ugly, butch, unmarried women. Papers against the feminist movement depicted the movement's leaders as crazy basket-cases in their cartoons — here, here and here.
Suffrage leaders were shown as plump, angry women unattractive to men. Though women now have the right to vote, we still battle prejudices against us.
Today's anchors and spokeswomen are the "pretty" ones. To make it on TV, women need to be physically fit and beautiful. The importance on intelligence is no longer a factor (if it ever was).
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