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How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
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September 2012
On Sale: September 10, 2012
288 pages
ISBN: 161039173X
EAN: 9781610391733
Kindle: B008EMEJEY
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Non-Fiction History
It was the 1960s––a time of economic boom and social strife.
Young women poured into the workplace, but the “Help Wanted”
ads were segregated by gender and the “Mad Men” office
culture was rife with sexual stereotyping and discrimination. Lynn Povich was one of the lucky ones, landing a job at
Newsweek, renowned for its cutting-edge coverage of civil
rights and the “Swinging Sixties.” Nora Ephron, Jane Bryant
Quinn, Ellen Goodman, and Susan Brownmiller all started
there as well. It was a top-notch job––for a girl––at an
exciting place. But it was a dead end. Women researchers sometimes became
reporters, rarely writers, and never editors. Any aspiring
female journalist was told, “If you want to be a writer, go
somewhere else.” On March 16, 1970, the day Newsweek published a cover story
on the fledgling feminist movement entitled “Women in
Revolt,” forty-six Newsweek women charged the magazine with
discrimination in hiring and promotion. It was the first
female class action lawsuit––the first by women
journalists––and it inspired other women in the media to
quickly follow suit. Lynn Povich was one of the ringleaders. In The Good Girls
Revolt, she evocatively tells the story of this dramatic
turning point through the lives of several participants.
With warmth, humor, and perspective, she shows how personal
experiences and cultural shifts led a group of
well-mannered, largely apolitical women, raised in the 1940s
and 1950s, to challenge their bosses––and what happened
after they did. For many, filing the suit was a radicalizing
act that empowered them to “find themselves” and fight back.
Others lost their way amid opportunities, pressures,
discouragements, and hostilities they weren’t prepared to
navigate. The Good Girls Revolt also explores why changes in the law
didn’t solve everything. Through the lives of young female
journalists at Newsweek today, Lynn Povich shows what
has––and hasn’t––changed in the workplace.
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