''Woman's Day'' is an American women's

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that covers such topics as

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, food,

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, physical attractiveness, and

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. The print edition is one of the Seven Sisters magazines. The magazine was first published in 1931 by

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; the current publisher is Hearst Corporation.

History

A&P began publishing the U.S. edition as a free in-store menu/recipe planner, calculated to make customers buy more by giving them meal ideas in an easy-to-read format available inside A&P grocery stores. Following the 1936 opening of A&P's first modern

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(in Braddock, Pennsylvania), A&P expanded ''Woman's Day'' in 1937 through a wholly owned subsidiary, the Stores Publishing Company. Selling for five cents a copy (¢ today), the magazine featured articles on childcare,

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s, food preparation and

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, home decoration, needlework and

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, plus a revival of cartoonist Walter Hoban's '' Jerry on the Job''

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in a 1939 Grape-Nuts ad campaign.Gallery
/ref> Sold exclusively in A&P stores, ''Woman's Day'' had a circulation of 3,000,000 by 1944. This had reached 4,000,000 by the time A&P sold the magazine to Fawcett Publications in 1958. By 1965, ''Woman's Day'' had climbed to a circulation of 6,500,000. In a mid-1960s appeal to

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, an ad for ''Woman's Day'' showed a friendly

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named I.A. Morse next to copy that claimed: Fawcett was sold to CBS in 1977, and CBS, in turn, sold its magazine division to a group led by division head Peter Diamandis, who renamed the group Diamandis Communications. In 1988 ''Woman's Day'', along with the rest of Diamandis, was acquired by

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which published the magazine from offices at 1633 Broadway in New York. Hearst Magazines bought the Hachette magazines in the US in 2011. Under Hearst ownership, the magazine switched to bimonthly frequency.

Editors

*Mabel Hill Souvaine (1943–1957) *Eileen Tighe (1957–1966) *Geraldine Rhoads (1966–1982) *Ellen Levine (1982–1991) *Jane Chesnutt (1991–2010) *Elizabeth Mayhew (2010-2012) *Susan Spencer (2012–2020) *Meaghan Murphy (2020–present)

Notable staff

* Jeanne Voltz

References

External links

*
''United We Stand'': John Clymer cover for July 1942 issue
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History

Editors

Notable staff

See also

References

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