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Feminism/The Good Girls Revolt

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You should read Lynn Povitch's book. Five years after the lawsuit, she became the first female senior editor in the mag's history. Today editorial offices in publishing and TV are teeming with women.

I shouldn't have written, however, that women were "absolutely" confined to secretarial positions. I forgot Grace Wyndham Goldie. Momentarily. May God strike me dead.

    Ithaca (talk)20:57, 22 August 2013

    I mean, i have no idea what you are talking about. I just read, today's article from Salon about the lack of women journalists. That article references 3 otehr articles talking about the main players in jourlalism, and each and every one fails to list a single woman out of 20 or so men listed.

    Yes, there are a few women who have succeeded. one women is not enough to make up for the extreme lack of writers in film, or tv, directors of the same, jorunalists, much less world renouned journalists. and while there are as far as i know, 10 or so major editors who are women, that is NOTHING in the pot compared to the number of major editorial positions held by men.

      Green mowse.pngGodot The ablity to breath is such an overrated ability23:45, 22 August 2013

      In case you care -

      I'm just not seeing Povitch's "teeming".

        Green mowse.pngGodot The ablity to breath is such an overrated ability23:57, 22 August 2013

        In fact, she herself denies your very position. http://jezebel.com/5941690/former-newsweek-revolutionary-lynn-povitch-says-that-workplace-gender-equality-still-has-a-long-way-to-go

          Green mowse.pngGodot The ablity to breath is such an overrated ability23:59, 22 August 2013

          Well, TVM for all the research. I think "denies" is a little strong as a descriptor of that Jezebel piece, but I take your point.

          But anyway, we're not going to get anywhere with this. I can see, if I cared to take you on, stretching into my future an endless series of...

          "I'll see your Leslie Moonves (Pres. CBS News) and raise you a Deborah Turness (Pres. NBC News)"

          "I'll see your Tony Hall (BBC DG) and raise you a Helen Boaden (Dir BBC tv)"

          "I'll see your Gary Barber (CEO MGM) and raise you an Amy Pascal (co-chairman Sony Pictures Entertainment)"

          ...and on and on. So I resign.

            Ithaca (talk)00:32, 23 August 2013