Josephine Conger-Kaneko

She learned about the publishing trade at an early age, setting type for the Linneus Bulletin, a newspaper established by her brother.

[1] After attending the radical Ruskin College at Trenton, Missouri, she became a socialist[2] and joined the staff of Appeal to Reason, a newspaper in Girard, Kansas.

[3][4] Conger-Kaneko believed that men and women were equal and that sexual differences were imposed by society.

She was a candidate for Trustee of the University of Illinois in 1914, appearing on the ballot on the Socialist Party ticket.

[6] In May 1916, Conger-Kaneko was tapped as the new editor of Home Life, a magazine published in Chicago.