A short list:
The China Press: Shopping about town with Jeannette, Jeannette’s Page [e.g. household hints, shopping service, receipts etc.] A page for women: Fashion And Beauty Hints, Advice On Home
North-China Herald/Daily News: Woman’s Page
The Shanghai Gazette: Shopping with Dorothy
The Shanghai Times: In Woman's Realm
North-China Herald, April 17, 1920, p. 120.
In this issue we inaugurate a new feature which we hope will also prove an acceptable one. The lady - by the way we are told that at home nowadays this word has quite qone out owing to its much abuse and that the very old fashioned "gentlewoman" is in favour again - the gentlewoman, then, who presides over the destinies of the page has written her own introduction, addressing herself severly to her own sex and evidently convinced that no man, unless compelled to do so, even looks at women's pages. Wherein, by the way, we think she errs. But to what she has written a word may be added. "When," exclaims Kitty in the play Miss Tempest has been acting here, "will men stop talking of women with a big 'W'?" The answer is: "Have we not learnt it from yourselves?" And if ever there was excuse for the capital letter, there is certainly more excuse than ever since "The Marriage of Kitty" was written. Perhaps one of the greatest changes that have come over the world is that parents who once though that there was nothing left for a girl when her schooling was finished but to wait for some one to marry her, now contemplate giving her a profession as naturally as if she were a boy. It is a mere truism that women are now making their way in all callings side by side with men. And so it might be argued that they will take interest in the same things and that newspapers need not make special provision for them. We have not quite come to that, however, and meanwhile with Parliament, Law, Medicine and even the Church making special provision for women, the "N. C. D. N." must not lag behind.
p. 219.
The Woman's Page
By Cleopatra
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