32 Facts About Doris Fleischman

Doris Elsa Fleischman Bernays, was an American writer, public relations executive, and feminist activist.

Doris Fleischman was the first married woman to be issued a United States passport in her maiden name, Doris Fleischman, in 1925.

Doris Fleischman was born to a Jewish family in New York City, New York, on July 18,1891, the daughter of attorney Samuel Fleischman and Harriet Rosenthal Fleischman.

Doris Fleischman was one of three children, and was the niece of Sigmund Freud through her marriage to Edward Bernays.

Doris Fleischman attended Hunter Normal School before graduating from Horace Mann School in 1909.

Doris Fleischman went on to study philosophy, psychology, and English at Barnard College and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1913.

Doris Fleischman studied music and psychiatry and considered each as a career path.

In 1917, Doris Fleischman marched in the first Women's Peace Parade in New York City, New York.

Doris Fleischman stayed in contact with her childhood friend Edward Bernays throughout her college career.

Doris Fleischman was friends with his sister, Hella at Barnard, and he helped her get a job at the New York Tribune.

In 1919, when Bernays opened a publicity firm, Doris Fleischman was his first hire.

Doris Fleischman traveled to Europe, and before doing so, had a passport issued to her under her maiden name.

Doris Fleischman was the first American woman to do so.

Doris Fleischman later became an active member in the Lucy Stone League, which empowered women and urged them to keep their maiden names after marriage.

In 1962, Bernays and Doris Fleischman left their home in New York City to move to Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Doris Fleischman died of a stroke in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 10,1980.

Doris Fleischman left this job in 1914 to write for the women's page at the New York Tribune, where she would eventually be promoted to assistant Sunday editor.

Doris Fleischman traveled to San Francisco to cover the International Conference of Women Workers to Promote Permanent Peace, and she was the first woman, as far as she knew, to report on a professional boxing match.

Doris Fleischman wrote on many topics, including cooking, fashion, working women's worth and dignity, single women's access to housing and leisure, women's rights to serve in government and war, and men's responsibilities as parents.

Doris Fleischman left the Tribune in 1916, for reasons she never made public.

Doris Fleischman wrote press releases on a freelance basis for Bernays's first two clients: the Lithuanian National Council and the US Department of War.

At the conference, Doris Fleischman experienced discrimination and threats of violence based on her gender, but continued to work to have southern press agencies cover the conference, a difficult feat at the time.

Doris Fleischman proved herself by going on to work with important clients like Dwight D Eisenhower, Sigmund Freud, Jane Addams, Irene Castle, Theodore Roosevelt, and Thomas A Edison.

Around this time, Doris Fleischman took her passion for feminism and wrote about women's issues for national publications and had numerous published articles in magazines like Ladies' Home Journal and American Mercury.

Doris Fleischman wrote a chapter for Fred J Ringel's book, America as Americans See It, and described women's work both in and out of the domestic setting.

In 1950, Doris Fleischman was contacted by Ruth Hale, founder of the Lucy Stone League, to help revive her organization which had been inactive for almost two decades following its founding in 1921.

In 1952, Doris Fleischman was invited by the director of the Women's Bureau of the US Department of Labor to attend a conference on pay equity and women in the workplace.

Around this time, Doris Fleischman began searching for publishers to print a book she had been working on for over three years which detailed the struggles women face in the domestic and professional settings.

Doris Fleischman moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband in 1962 so that he could finish writing his book and they could retire together.

In 1971, Doris Fleischman joined Theta Sigma Phi, the Association for Women in Communications.

Doris Fleischman worked with her husband's agency and Women In Communications, Inc to develop two competitions that took place in 1974 and 1977.

Towards the end of her career, Doris Fleischman wrote many book reviews for the Worcester Sunday Telegram in Cambridge.