The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (737 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1610397460 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. Through the lives of young female journalists at Newsweek today, Lynn Povich shows what has--and hasn't--changed in the workplace.. 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 af
“Povich’s memoir of the tortuous, landmark battle that paved the way for a generation of female writers and editors is illuminating in its details and casts valuable perspective on a trail-blazing case that shouldn’t be forgotten.”
"So very true" according to Kindle Customer marty. Great read could not put it down. Very well written. Brings back not so fond memories. As a So very true Great read could not put it down. Very well written. Brings back not so fond memories. As a 3rd generation newspaper person I can relate . I worked in advertising. Finally as a sales rep,my pay was based on salary plus commission I made pretty good money almost 8 x as much after getting out of the hourly ad paste up composing room female ghetto. My women friends who were reporters in the 1980's were shocked at how much more money I made than them. One thing about sales how much you sell is how much you make.At that time salaries were so hush hush management didn't want anyone to know how much people w. rd generation newspaper person I can relate . I worked in advertising. Finally as a sales rep,my pay was based on salary plus commission I made pretty good money almost 8 x as much after getting out of the hourly ad paste up composing room female ghetto. My women friends who were reporters in the 1980's were shocked at how much more money I made than them. One thing about sales how much you sell is how much you make.At that time salaries were so hush hush management didn't want anyone to know how much people w. Much better and more real than the Amazon TV miniseries, which I greatly enjoyed. jackie Quick read, great tie in with history of Newsweek and the current (or at least 2009) climate. Sad that sexism is still with us but also validating that it isn't all in my head. I appreciated the reference to Susan Brownmiller's In Our Time, which I'm reading now. Much better and more real than the Amazon TV miniseries, which I greatly enjoyed. Shows how long, slogging, and painfully slow the march to make life better actually is. The women who filed the complaint nearly all didn't benefit from it or didn't benefit much. But they changed the hearts and minds of a nation and shook up boardrooms across t. Marilyn Armstrong said Disappointing. I expected to love it,but I admit I gave up in the middle. I was bored. I'm old enough to remember how it was back in the day and my own fight for recognition as a writer and editor but it seemed like the material was pretty thin. It felt like the book should have been about half the length. In fact, it felt padded to make it long enough to publish as a full-fledged book. Full of chatty detail that (for me) adds nothing to the narrative. This is supposed to be non-fiction, but the author ran out of material before she ran out of pages. I'm hoping it makes a better TV mini series because the book was