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For every man there was an inferior woman, for every writer there was a checker," said Nora Ephron. "they were the artists and we were the drones.
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― The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
― The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
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...at Newsweek only girls with college degrees--and we were called "girls" then--were hired to sort and deliver the mail, humbly pushing our carts from door to door in our ladylike frocks and proper high-heeled shoes. If we could manage that, we graduated to "clippers," another female ghetto. Dressed in drab khaki smocks so that ink wouldn't smudge our clothes, we sat at the clip desk, marked up newspapers, tore out releveant articles with razor-edged "rip sticks," and routed the clips to the ap
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― The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
― The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
