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Boston Globe Rated Left In 2021 Independent Review
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It was sometime during the mid-1970s — an era when only a handful of female reporters had earned what was considered a plum post reporting politics from the Massachusetts State House.
It was also a time when the political power structure on Beacon Hill was all male — in every sense of that word. And so the tiny band of maybe three or four women reporters weren’t invited to then-Senate President Kevin Harrington’s all-male sail along the scenic North Shore coast.
Exclusion stings — even after all these years.
“You wouldn’t have much fun, anyway,” we females were told. And, after all, the event was a State House tradition — had been going on for years. Why do away with such a fine tradition?