Lynn Povich

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NY Times Mar. 20, 1969
Several weeks ago I wrote a post about the lawsuit brought by the researchers at Newsweek who in 1970 figured out that they had been hired into a “female ghetto” of research, which was valued less than the “male” role of reporting . It was also a position

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Newsweek  Cover March 23, 1970
On March 16, 1970 Newsweek ran a cover story “Women in Revolt” about the nascent women’s movement. To the editors, it was a distant and exotic fringe movement. That same day 46  female Newsweek researchers  and their lawyer Eleanor Holmes Norton held a press conference announcing that they were filing an

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