This post is one of a series of posts in observance of Women’s History Month.

Women may not be moving rapidly into political office, but they have made significant inroads on the press bus and in the upper echelons of campaigns. The campaign press posse has changed dramatically since Rolling Stone journalist Timothy Crouse wrote about the all-male pack covering the 1972 presidential campaign in his book The Boys on the Bus. The National Press Club, the nation’s premier organization of journalists, excluded women until 1971. But things started to change quickly. By 2012, Politico reporters Ginger Gibson and Dylan Byers wrote that CNN had “as many female embeds covering the campaigns as it does men.” There was also parity at NBC, they said, and female embeds outnumbered men at Fox, ABC, and CBS. The “girls on the bus” have moved to the front seats.

According to a January CNN Business report, “At least six major news networks have assigned women to lead White House coverage of the Biden administration, raising the profile of female journalists in an institution long dominated by men.” Moreover, the Biden administration’s senior communication staff is fully staffed by women. What remains to be seen is how they will change the comms office.

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