Dorothy Dunbar Bromley

Dorothy Dunbar Bromley (December 25, 1896 – January 3, 1986) was an American journalist and early writer on birth control and women's issues.

Early life Bromley was born Dorothy Ewing Dunbar on December 25, 1896, in Ottawa, Illinois. These new women exhibited a new "individualistic approach to both personal and professional life". Furthermore, there was increasingly a pull away from the previous generation of women that had preceded this new brand of feminism. Bromley's other freelance work covered topics such as divorce, voting, criminal law and educational legislation in the United States, Britain and France.

Her newspaper work also discussed a broad range of issues. In her regular column for the New York World-Telegram, Bromley wrote on birth control, marriage and divorce, sexual stereotypes, women and work, and women and the legal system. As an editor and columnist for the New York Herald Tribune, Bromley continued writing on various women's interests, from educational reform in the city's schools to German prisoners of war and starvation in Europe and India. Her column in the New York Post entitled "Strike a Balance" covered the political climate in Europe during the rise of Nazism and fascism. Other articles covered Depression era social welfare programs, child and domestic labor, juvenile delinquency, and criminal rehabilitation.

Towards the end of her career, Bromley continued her interest in social causes by becoming involved in several organizations. From 1952 to 1958, she was "conductor" for "Report to the People", a program on radio station WMCA. She served as secretary of the New York State Committee for the White House Conference on Children and Youth (1959–1960); was on the board of the American Civil Liberties Union; and was a member of Americans for Democracy and Phi Beta Kappa. Bromley was also the recipient of prizes from the New York Newspaper Women's Club in 1936 and 1944.

Personal Bromley's first marriage to Donald C. Bromley ended in divorce in 1924, and she married Stanley Ward Walker, an insurance salesman, in 1947. Walker died in 1964. Bromley lived in New York City until about 1976, when she moved to a retirement community in Pennsylvania; there she served as co-editor of the community newsletter, "The Kendal Reporter". Bromley died of pneumonia on January 3, 1986, at age 89.

Works Birth Control, Its Use and Misuse, Harper, 1934 Youth and Sex (with Florence H. Britten), Harper and Row, 1938 Catholics and Birth Control, Devin Adair, 1965 Washington and Vietnam, Oceana, 1966