The Good Girls Revolt (31 page)

top editors of

weekly routine at

writing style of

See also specific staff members

Nineteenth Amendment

Nixon administration

No More Fun and Games
(journal)

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

approach of

background of

follow-up on

hired as lawsuit lawyer

Katharine Graham’s attitude towards

meeting with Oz Elliott and Kermit Lansner

and negotiations following lawsuit announcement

reasons for taking on the lawsuit

recommending legal action

signing first settlement agreement

statement read by, at press conference

at the “Women’s Strike for Equality” event

Notes from the First Year
(New York Radical Women)

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

O’Reilly, Jane

Orth, Maureen

Our Bodies, Ourselves
(Boston Women’s Health Book Collective)

Parker, Maynard

Parks, Rosa

Peer, Liz

Personal History
(Graham)

Peyser, Marc

Pilpel, Harriet

Plan B (morning-after pill)

Playboy
(magazine)

Pleshette, Mary

Porter, Bruce

Povich, David

Povich, Ethyl Friedman

Povich, Lynn

background of

breaking the editorial barrier

in the decades following second lawsuit

follow-up on

as lawsuit ring leader

leave of absence

recruiting women for the lawsuit

relationship between Katharine Graham and

on signing first settlement agreement

signing second settlement agreement

Povich, Shirley

Pressman, Gabe

Quindlen, Anna

Quinn, Jane Bryant

Rabb, Bruce

Rabb, Harriet Schaffer

background of

follow-up on

on her other media-related discrimination suits

hired as lawsuit lawyer for new negotiations

Joe Califano’s negotiations with, in second lawsuit

payment of, and signing second settlement agreement

reflections back on the second lawsuit

Racial bias/discrimination

Racial discrimination lawsuits

Racial segregation

Radcliffe

Ragsdale, Noel

Reader’s Digest
(magazine), lawsuit involving

Redstockings

Reilly, Trish

Reproductive rights

Riggs, Bobby

Robertson, Nan

Robinson, Janet

Rockefeller University

Roe v. Wade

Ross, Ruth

Ruby, Mike

Saarinen, Aline

Salembier, Valerie

Salmans, Sandra

Sandberg, Sheryl

Sarachild, Kathie Amatniek

Saturday Review
(magazine)

Schiff, Dorothy

Schroeder, Pat

Sciolino, Elaine

Scott, Ann

Second Sex, The
(Beauvoir)

Seligmann, Jeanie

Sex discrimination lawsuits, media-related

additional

first of

future opportunities created from

go-to lawyer for

See also Newsweek
lawsuit (first);
Newsweek
lawsuit (second)

Sex discrimination lawsuits, other, proliferation of

Sexism in the workplace today

Sex-segregated job ads

Sexual harassment

Shalala, Donna

Shanahan, Eileen

Sheils, Mimi.
See
McLoughlin, Merrill “Mimi”

Shepard, Steve

Simmons, Debra Adams

Smith, Howard

Smith, Howard K.

Smith, Margaret Chase

Smith, Rick

Smith, Sunde

Sokolov, Ray

Sovern, Michael

Sports Illustrated
(magazine)

Spurlock, Karla

Stadtman, Nancy

Steinem, Gloria

Steuart, Betsy

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Students for a Democratic Society

Suffragettes

Sulzberger, Arthur “Punch,”

Swann, Annalyn

Terrell, Mary Church

Thomas, Rich

Time Inc.

Time
(magazine)

comparison to
Newsweek
magazine

lawsuit involving

Title IX

Title VII

Tompkins, Grant

Tumblr (website)

US Congress

US News & World Report
(magazine)

US Supreme Court

USA Today
(newspaper)

Vanity Fair
(magazine)

Vanityfair.com
(website)

Vassar College

Vietnam War

Village Voice
(newspaper)

Vincent Astor Foundation

Voice of the Women’s Liberation Movement
(newsletter)

Voting rights

Wade, Betsy

Wage gap

Wall Street Journal
(newspaper)

Wallendas

Walters, Barbara

Washington Post Company

Washington Post
(newspaper)

discrimination at

lawsuit involving

Watergate

Waters, Harry

Watson, Russ

Weatherman Underground

Werthman, Ruth

Weymouth, Katharine

When Everything Changed
(Collins)

Whitaker, Mark

Whitmore, Jane

Wicker, Carole

Willey, Fay

Willis, Jack

Willis, Mary Pleshette.
See
Pleshette, Mary

Women’s Media Group

Women’s Wear Daily
(newspaper)

Woodward, Ken

Working Woman
(magazine)

World of Oz, The
(Elliott)

Wright, Marian (Edelman)

Writer training program

Wulf, Mel

Yee, Min

Young, Jeffrey

Zimmerman, Diane

Zimmerman, Paul

Zorn, Franny Heller

Lynn Povich
is an award-winning journalist who has spent more than forty years in the news business. She began her career at
Newsweek
as a secretary. In 1970, she was one of forty-six women who sued
Newsweek
for sex discrimination. Five years later, Povich was appointed the first woman senior editor in the magazine’s history. Povich left
Newsweek
in 1991 to become editor-in-chief of
Working Woman
magazine, the only national business magazine for women. She joined
MSNBC.com
in 1996 to help launch the twenty-four-hour news and information cable/Internet venture, overseeing the web content of NBC News as well as MSNBC cable.

Povich has received numerous honors, including a 1976 Matrix Award from Women in Communications for Exceptional Achievement in Magazines. In 2005, she edited a book on her father, famed
Washington Post
sports columnist Shirley Povich, called
All Those Mornings . . . At the Post
. A native of Washington, D.C., Povich graduated from Vassar College, where she was executive-in-residence in 1996. She serves on the advisory boards of the International Women’s Media Foundation and the Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch. She is married to Stephen B. Shepard, former editor-in-chief of
Business Week
and founding dean of the Graduate School of Journalism of the City University of New York. They have two children.

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