[4][5] Shortly after graduating from Smith College, she was hired as an assistant editor at Ladies' Home Journal.

Within a few years, she landed at Redbook where she rose up through the ranks from associate editor to become the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief for the magazine in 1981.

In December 1988, decades before MeToo, the magazine published what it claimed was the first scientific study of sexual harassment in the workplace.

Of the 160 corporations that participated in the study, 90% reported complaints of unwanted sexual advances by men toward female employees.

The latter debuted on October 1, 1993 as a penta-weekly newspaper (or simply a daily published Monday through Friday) aimed at women based in New York City.

[9] Smith left Her New York after only a few weeks, and later openly criticized the paper's shift in editorial policy from articles targeted to sophisticated working women to pieces deemed more "hip," for an example, a feature on former porn star Annie Sprinkle.

"[10] Other editorial assignments include stints at startup publications, NY city life (a lifestyle magazine) in 1997,[11] and Space.com Illustrated in 2000.