It was confirmed earlier this summer that Jill Abramson will be taking over for Bill Keller as the managing editor at the New York Times - no small feat, considering she's the first woman to ever ascend to that position. And it's even more impressive when you realize that, just 50 years ago, the paper was taking on its very first female reporters.

Eileen Shanahan was the first female reporter in the paper's Washington bureau to report on something other than first ladies, and she spoke to CSPAN in 1994 about what it was like being a woman in a man's world. According to Jezebel, Shanahan recalled that, in 1961, then-managing editor Clifton Daniel asked her during her job interview what her ultimate goal at the company was.

"Well, I had wanted to be an editor ever since I was an editor at my college paper," remembers Shanahan. "But I had sense enough not to say it."

Instead, she responded that she wanted to be the best reporter she could be, to which Daniel replied, "That's good, because I can assure you that no woman will ever be an editor at the New York Times."

Fifty years later, we assume that Daniel is eating particularly stringy crow in Heaven. Congratulations to Ms. Abramson.