The Good Girls Revolt (Paperback)

from rosalita

This book requires us to hop into the Wayback Machine. Believe it or not, in the 1960s weekly newsmagazines like Time and Newsweek had very definite ideas on the proper place for women: the researc...

from CassandraT

It's great to hear the stories of women and men who were involved in early modern civil rights. I owe these women so much. and yes, the author doesn't seem to get intersectionality. But I think wha...

from bookchickdi

My sons like to tease me and call me a feminist (yeah, they don't get it), a badge I proudly wear, so I was surprised that I knew nothing about the revolt by the women working at Newsweek magazine,...

from NewsieQ

The gender discrimination at Newsweek magazine in the 1950s and 1960s was blatant. Men with college degrees from Ivy League colleges worked as writers, reporters and editors. Women with the same cr...

from etxgardener

Lynn Povich's memoir of the working environment for women in the late 1960's, and the issues that made women in general file class action suits against their employees brought back my own memories ...