''Woman's Day'' is an American

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monthly magazine 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 The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company; the current publisher is

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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.

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)

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