Doris Fleischman

Education

Fleischman attended Hunter Normal School before graduating from Horace Mann School in 1909. She graduated with a bachelor"s degree from Barnard College in 1913.

Career

She was the first married woman to be issued a United States passport in her maiden name, Doris Fleischman, in 1925. Fleischman wrote for the New York Tribune women"s page before being promoted to assistant Sunday editor, where she was the first woman to report on a boxing match. In 1919, she was hired as a writer by Edward L. Bernays.

Fleischman continued to use her maiden name, which was very unusual at the time.

Fleischman also wrote about women"s issues for national publications. The Association for Women in Communications gave her their highest honor, a National Headliner Award, in 1972.

Fleischman died of a stroke in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Achievements

• Among her accomplishments were an internal client publication Contact (which explained the nature and value of public relations to clients) and securing press coverage for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People convention in Atlanta.

Membership

Fleischman was a member of the Lucy Stone League, a group which encouraged women to keep their names after marriage.