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- <title>
- Nov. 05, 1990: From The Publisher
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Nov. 05, 1990 Reagan Memoirs
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 26
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- <p> This week there are two TIME magazines, both of them on
- newsstands and in the mail to subscribers. One is the regular
- issue you're holding. The other is a special issue, "Women: The
- Road Ahead," devoted entirely to that subject. In our 67-year
- history, it marks just the seventh occasion on which we have
- produced an extra issue of this kind, one that revolves around
- a single topic and remains on newsstands for more than a month.
- </p>
- <p> When executive editor Edward Jamieson proposed an entire
- magazine focused on women, no one agreed more quickly than
- senior editor Claudia Wallis, who with Jamieson edited the
- special issue. Just last December she wrote a TIME cover story
- on how far women have come. "Yet there was still so much more
- to say," Wallis explains. "In that story we looked at the
- history of the women's movement. This time we wanted to look
- to the future."
- </p>
- <p> Some experts on workplace organization believe there is an
- identifiably female brand of management, one that relies more
- strongly than the male-dominated variety on open decision
- making and consensus building. Some of our staff say this approach was in
- evidence on the special issue, a project in which women largely
- directed the research, story selection, layout design and photo
- editing. "There was a remarkable degree of teamwork," says
- reporter-researcher Katherine Mihok, who was chief of research
- for the issue. "People concentrated upon the issue as a whole,
- not just the portion they were working on personally."
- </p>
- <p> Associate art director Irene Ramp gave the issue its own
- special look. Though it contains the customary World and Nation
- sections, the rest is organized around five chapters with
- descriptive headings such as Public Images, the Changing
- Family, and Self and Society. Perhaps the most striking design
- choice is the cover image, a painting of a woman by
- Philadelphia artist Susan Moore. Editor Wallis thinks the
- portrait suggests that the woman is peering at the reader from
- behind a door that is partly open. "What does she see as she
- surveys the vistas ahead of her?" asks Wallis. "That was the
- question we wanted this issue to answer."
- </p>
- <p>-- Louis A. Weil III
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