Chatelaine (magazine)
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| Editor | Lianne George |
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| Categories | Women's magazine |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Total circulation (June 2013) |
539,913 |
| Year founded | March, 1928 |
| First issue | March 1928 |
| Company | Rogers Media |
| Country | Canada |
| Based in | Toronto |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0009-1995 |
Chatelaine is an English-language Canadian magazine of women's lifestyles and the number one magazine in Canada in paid circulation. Both Chatelaine and its French-language version, Châtelaine, are published monthly by Rogers Media, a division of Rogers Communications. It was first published in March 1928 by Maclean Publishing. Due to falling print ad revenues, Chatelaine is to reduce its publication frequency to 6 times a year beginning in 2017. Other Rogers Media publications are also to either reduce their publication frequency or become digital only publications. Rogers Media also announced that it intends to divest itself of its French-language publications, including Châtelaine.
The magazine, website, iPad apps, eBooks and special interest publications cover a variety of women's interests, from food and recipes to fashion, beauty and home decor, to health, books and real-life stories.
From 1957 to 1977, Chatelaine's editor was Doris Anderson, under whose tenure the magazine was a leader in Canadian coverage of women's issues, including the rise of feminism as a social phenomenon. Other recent editors include Mildred Istona and Rona Maynard. The current editor is Lianne George.
The magazine celebrated its 85th anniversary in May 2013.
Chatelaine was first published in March 1928. It was created by the Maclean Hunter Publishing Company as a means to reach a different demographic than its other publications, Maclean's and the Financial Post. Maclean Hunter Publishing Company solicited ideas from Canadian women in order to choose a name for the magazine, offering a $1000 prize for the winning entry. The contest, which drew 75,000 entries, encouraged a great deal of hype about the magazine's inauguration among Canadian women. A rancher's wife from Eburne, British Columbia won with her suggestion of "The Chatelaine." The title refers to the ring of keys which housewives long ago would use to get into every part of the house.
The first issue of Chatelaine was published the very same month that Emily Murphy presented the Persons Case to the Supreme Court, a major turning point in Canadian women's history. In December 1929, Murphy wrote an article for Chatelaine entitled "Now That Women Are Persons, What's Ahead?" In its first years, the magazine served as a sounding board for women at the end of the first wave of feminism. Along with providing advice on style, cooking, homemaking, and child-rearing, Chatelaine published editorials from some of the most influential female thinkers of the time. In 1928 and 1929, article topics included panic over the rising divorce rate, "Wages and Wives" (April 1929), and the high maternal mortality rate in rural Canada (July 1928).
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