num_pages: 288
description: 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.With warmth humor and perspective the book also explores why changes in the law did not change everything for today's young women.
language: English
title: The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
publisher: PublicAffairs