The good girls revolt [electronic resource] : how the women of Newsweek sued their bosses and changed the workplace / Lynn Povich.
Povich, Lynn.
2012
HD6060.5.U5 P65 2012eb
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Title The good girls revolt [electronic resource] : how the women of Newsweek sued their bosses and changed the workplace / Lynn Povich.
Author Povich, Lynn.
ISBN 9781610391740 (electronic book)
1610391748 (electronic book)
Imprint New York : PublicAffairs, c2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource. (xx, 249 p., [12] p. of plates) : ill.
Call Number HD6060.5.U5 P65 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 331.4/81070572
Summary "On March 16, 1970, Newsweek magazine hit newsstands with a cover story on the fledgling feminist movement entitled "Women in Revolt." That same day, 46 Newsweek women, Lynn Povich among them, announced they'd filed an EEOC complaint charging their employer with "systematic discrimination" against them in hiring and promotion. In The Good Girls Revolt, Povich evocatively tells the story of this dramatic turning point through the lives of several participants, showing how personal experiences and cultural shifts led a group of well-mannered, largely apolitical women, raised in the 1940s and 1950s, to stand up for their rights -- and what happened after they did. For many, filing the suit was a radicalizing act that empowered them to "find themselves" and stake a claim. Others lost their way in a landscape of opportunities, pressures, discouragements, and hostilities they weren't prepared to navigate." --Publisher's web site.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Prologue: What was the problem?
"Editors file story; girls file complaint"
"A newsmagazine tradition"
The "hot book"
Ring leaders
"You gotta take off your white gloves, ladies"
Round one
Mad men : the boys fight back
The steel magnolia
"Joe
surrender"
The barricades fell
Passing the torch
Where they are now.

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