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Rheta Childe Dorr
1866–1948
A fearless journalist and suffrage advocate, she brought sharp reporting and personal conviction to some of the biggest social questions of her era. Her work on women’s labor, politics, and reform helped make her one of the notable muckraking voices of the Progressive Era.
3 Audiobooks
What eight million women want
by Rheta Childe Dorr
A soldier's mother in France
by Rheta Childe Dorr
Inside the Russian Revolution
by Rheta Childe Dorr
About the author
Born in Nebraska, Rheta Childe Dorr became known as an American journalist, writer, political activist, and a prominent supporter of women’s suffrage. She is especially remembered for investigative reporting on the lives and working conditions of women, and for her role in public debates about reform in the early twentieth century.
Her career included newspaper and magazine work, and she is widely noted as the first editor of The Suffragist, an influential paper connected with the suffrage movement. She also wrote books, including What Eight Million Women Want, which reflected her interest in women’s rights, labor, and social change.
Dorr’s life and views were complex, and her politics shifted over time, but her reputation as an energetic reporter and public voice has lasted. Today she is often remembered both as a pioneering woman in journalism and as a figure who helped bring the fight for women’s political equality to a wider audience.