The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace

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It used to be 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 used to be rife with sexual stereotyping and discrimination.

Lynn Povich used to be one of the crucial lucky ones, landing a job at Newsweek, renowned for its state of the art coverage of civil rights and the “Swinging Sixties.” Nora Ephron, Jane Bryant Quinn, Ellen Goodman, and Susan Brownmiller all started there as well. It used to be a top-notch job–for a lady–at an exciting place.

But it used to be a dead end. Women researchers once in a while became reporters, rarely writers, and never editors. Any aspiring female journalist used to be told, “If you wish to be a creator, go somewhere else.”

On March 16, 1970, the day Newsweek published a cover story on the fledgling feminist movement entitled “Women in Rebel,” forty-six Newsweek women charged the magazine with discrimination in hiring and promotion. It used to be 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 used to be one of the crucial 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, in large part apolitical women, raised in the 1940s and 1950s, to challenge their bosses–and what happened after they did. For lots of, filing the suit used to be 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 Rebel 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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