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12%OFFLynn Povich - The Good Girls Revolt (Media tie-in): How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace - 9781610397469 - V9781610397469
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The Good Girls Revolt (Media tie-in): How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace

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Description for The Good Girls Revolt (Media tie-in): How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace Paperback. "A Reader's guide to The good girls revolt": pages 239-252. Num Pages: 304 pages, 12-pp. B/W photo insert on text. BIC Classification: JFD; JFSJ1; JPFM; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 263.
The inspiration for the original television seriesIt 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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
263g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781610397469
SKU
V9781610397469
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99-15

About Lynn Povich
Lynn Povich began her career at Newsweek as a secretary. In 1975 she became the first woman senior editor in the magazine's history. Since leaving Newsweek in 1991, Povich has been editor-in-chief of Working Woman magazine and managing editor/senior executive producer for MSNBC..om. Winner of the prestigious Matrix Award, Povich edited a book of columns by her father, famed Washington ... Read more

Reviews for The Good Girls Revolt (Media tie-in): How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
Crisp, revealing.... [A] taut, firsthand account of how a group of razor-sharp, courageous women successfully fought back against institutional sexism at one of the country's most esteemed publications.
Washingtonian Women still have a long way to go, the journalist Lynn Povich rousingly reminds readers in The Good Girls Revolt, her fascinating (and long overdue) history of the class-action ... Read more

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