The Good Girls Revolt: Women, Work and Politics

Speaker: 
Lynn Povich
 
01 Dec 2016
 
7:00 PM
 
Great Hall, Memorial Union

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Lynn Povich is an award-winning journalist and pioneer for women's equality in the workplace. She helped organize a landmark sex discrimination suit against Newsweek magazine in 1970 and five years later became the first female senior editor in the magazine’s history. Her 2012 book, The Good Girls Revolt, chronicles that lawsuit, its impact on the women involved, and what has - and hasn't - changed for women in business and the media. Her book has inspired a ten-part original, fictionalized drama series now available through Amazon Prime. In 1991, Povich left Newsweek to become editor-in-chief of Working Woman magazine. Most recently she was managing editor and senior executive producer of East Coast programming at MSNBC.com. Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics

Povich began her career as a secretary in the Paris Bureau of Newsweek magazine, rising to become a reporter and writer in New York. In 1970, she was one of 46 women who sued the magazine for sex discrimination, the first women in the media to sue. Five years later, she was appointed the first woman senior editor in Newsweek’s history. A 1965 graduate of Vassar, Povich is a recipient of the Matrix Award for Magazines and serves on the advisory boards of the International Women's Media Foundation, the Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch and the CUNY Graduate Center Foundation.