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Page xiv A crumpled Post-it note marked the chapter: Brown- miller, In Our Time, 140.
Page xv Joe Halderman, a CBS News producer: Richard Huff, George Rush, and Samuel Goldsmith, “David Letterman Reveals $2M Sex Affair Extortion Plot; CBS News Producer Robert [Joe] Halderman Busted,” New York Daily News, October 2, 2009; www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/david-letterman-reveals-2m-sex-affair-extortion-plot-cbs-news-producer-robert-halderman-busted-article-1.379822#ixzz1oYaHuIBT.
Page xv That same month, ESPN analyst Steve Phillips: Jeane MacIntosh and Dan Mangan, “ESPN’s Steve Phillips in Foul Affair with Production Assistant,” New York Post, October 21, 2009; www.nypost.com/p/news/national/item_bLw9UoSAQJwJLU4ZDXvvDO#ixzz1oYWPQC9L.
Page xv In November, editor Sandra Guzman: Sam Stein, “New York Post Lawsuit: Shocking Allegations Made by Fired Employee Sandra Guzman,” Huffington Post, November 10, 2009; www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/10/shocking-allegations-levi_n_352314.html.
Page xv “At this moment, there are more females”: Nell Scovell, “Letterman and Me,” Vanityfair.com, October 27, 2009; www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/2009/10/david-letterman-200910.
Page xvii “the problem that had no name”: Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1963), p. 57 in later editions.
Page xviii In the 1950s, full-time working women: Borgna Brunner, “Help Wanted—Separate and Unequal,” The Wage Gap: A History of Pay Inequity and the Equal Pay Act, Infoplease .com; www.infoplease.com/spot/equalpayact1.html#ixzz1oYPDhqqg.
Page xviii Until 1970, women comprised fewer than 10 percent: Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, “On the Pill: Changing the Course of Women’s Education,” Milken Institute Review 3 (2nd quarter 2001): 14; www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/goldin/Papers.
CHAPTER 1 “EDITORS FILE STORY: GIRLS FILE COMPLAINT”
The description and quotes about the Ladies’ Home Journal sit-in are from Brownmiller, In Our Time, 83–92.
Page 9 In the next few years, women sued: Kathleen L. Endres and Therese L. Lueck “Media Report to Women,” in Women’s Periodicals in the United States: Social and Political Issues (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996), 202.
Page 9 In 1974, six women at the New York Times: Nan Robertson, The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New York Times (New York: Random House, 1992), 168.
Page 9 in 1975, sixteen women at NBC: Arnold H. Lubash, “$2 Million NBC Pact Is Set as a Settlement with Women of Staff,” New York Times, February 17, 1977.
Page 10 When Oz Elliott and Newsweek chairman Frederick “Fritz” Beebe telephoned her: Katharine Graham, Personal History (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997), 425.
Page 11 In her insightful book: Anna Fels, Necessary Dreams: Ambition in Women’s Changing Lives (New York: Pantheon Books, 2004).
Page 12 Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook: “Sheryl Sandberg Sees Global ‘Ambition Gap’” Bloomberg News, January 30, 2012; www.bloomberg.com/video/85189956-sandberg-sees-global-ambition-gap-for-women.html.
Page 13 “It was, all in all, a benevolent version”: Gail Collins, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009), 105.
CHAPTER 2 “A NEWSMAGAZINE TRADITION”
Page 15 Classified ads were still segregated by gender: “Pittsburgh Press v. Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations,” http://aclu.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=3124.
Page 16 That infamous “tradition” began in 1923: Robert T. Elson, Time Inc.: The Intimate History of a Publishing Enterprise, 1923–1941 (New York: Atheneum, 1968), 72.
Page 24 Liz later told him: Osborn Elliott, The World of Oz: An Inside Report on Big-Time Journalism by the Former Editor of Newsweek (New York: Viking Press, 1980), 143.
Page 24 Returning to the office at night: Gwenda Blair, “The Heart of the Matter,” Manhattan Inc., October 1984, 73.
Page 31 In 1965, Karen was sent out: “Divorced. Alan Jay Lerner,” Time, December 23, 1974.
CHAPTER 3 THE “HOT BOOK”
Unless otherwise noted, information about Osborn Elliott comes from his memoir, The World of Oz: An Inside Report on Big-Time Journalism by the Former Editor of Newsweek (New York: Viking Press, 1980).
Page 34 “Ozzy baby, I know where the smart money is”: Elliott, The World of Oz, 3.
Page 35 To get Phil Graham interested: Ben Bradlee, A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), 224.
Page 36 “Visually they are a nightmare”: Newsweek, February 24, 1964; Charles Kaiser, “A Magazine That Mattered,” Radar online, May 6, 2010; www.hillmanfoundation.org/blog/newsweek-sale.
Page 36 “With Kermit, we had a Jewish intellectual”: Alex Kuczynski, “Kermit Lansner, 78, Former Newsweek Editor,” New York Times, May 22, 2000.
Page 39 “No doubt the war”: Elliott, The World of Oz, 101.
Page 42 Describing the weekly routine: Carole Wicker, “Limousine to Nowhere . . . If You’re a Girl at a News Magazine,” Cosmopolitan.
Page 43 “The dialogue was eighth grade”: Robin Reisig, “Is Journalism an Air-Brushed Profession?” Village Voice, May 16, 1974, 24.
Page 46 Nation researcher Kate Coleman: Kate Coleman, “Turning on Newsweek,” Scanlan’s Monthly, June 1970, 44.
CHAPTER 4 RING LEADERS
Page 52 The famous “click!”: Jane O’Reilly, “The Housewife’s Moment of Truth,” Ms., December 1971.
Page 54 At that time, the Marshall: “History 1960–1991,” Marshall Scholarships; www.marshallscholarship.org/about/history/1960–1991.
Page 54 the Rhodes wasn’t extended to women: “Second Class Citizens? How Women Became Rhodes Scholars,” Rhodes Project; http://therhodesproject.wordpress.com.
Page 60 In the fall of 1969, Judy Gingold: Daisy Hernandez, “A Genteel Nostalgia, Going Out of Business,” New York Times, February 23, 2003.
Page 62 She was a “red-diaper baby”: Patricia Lynden, “Red Diaper Baby,” New York Woman, August 1988.
CHAPTER 5 “YOU GOTTA TAKE OFF YOUR WHITE GLOVES, LADIES”
Page 77 In October 1964 Otto Friedrich: Otto Friedrich, “There Are 00 Trees in Russia: The Function of Facts in News magazines,” Harper’s, October 1964, 59–65.
Page 79 Fay wrote a scathing letter: Fay Willey, “Letter to the Editor,” Harper’s, December 1964, 4.
Page 81 The great-granddaughter of a slave: Joan Steinau Lester in Conversation with Eleanor Holmes Norton, Fire in My Soul: The Life of Eleanor Holmes Norton (New York: Atria, 2003). Unless noted, biographical information about Eleanor Holmes Norton is based on Fire in My Soul.
Page 85 The provision protecting women: Gail Collins, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present (New York: Little, Brown,
and Company, 2009), 76. Feminist Jo Freeman argues that “sex” was not added to scuttle the bill. “How ‘Sex’ Got into Title VII,” www.jofreeman.com/lawandpolicy/titlevii.htm.
Page 86 “Congressman Smith would joyfully disembowel”: Don Oberdorfer, “‘Judge’ Smith Moves with Deliberate Drag,” New York Times Magazine, November 12, 1964.
CHAPTER 6 ROUND ONE
Page 94 At one point Vice President Spiro Agnew: Spiro Agnew, “Speech to Alabama Chamber of Commerce,” American History Online, Facts on File Inc., November 20, 1969.
Page 95 “I idolized her”: Helen Dudar, The Attentive Eye: Selected Journalism, ed. Peter Goldman (Bloomington, IN: Xlibris Corporation, 2002).
Page 98 Lucy was insulted: Susan Donaldson James, “Newsweek Still Wages Gender War, 40 Years Later,” ABCNews.com, March 23, 2010.
Page 101 “My idea of a cold-sweat nightmare”: Brownmiller, In Our Time, 145.
Page 103 As she wrote in her remarkably candid, Pulitzer Prize –winning autobiography: Graham, Personal History, 340, 418.
Page 104 Kay replied that she encouraged her employees: “Kay in Miami,” Women’s Wear Daily, March 2
4, 1970.
Page 107 Carrying hand-lettered signs: “‘Liberation’ Talk of the Town,” New Yorker, September 5, 1970, 28.
Page 108 Describing the event on the ABC evening news: Susan Jeanne Douglas, Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1994) 163.
Page 109 In a New York Times story about the agreement: “News week Agrees to Speed Promotion of Women,” New York Times, August 27, 1970.
CHAPTER 7 MAD MEN: THE BOYS FIGHT BACK
Page 116 When Katharine Graham suggested: Graham, Personal History, 424.
Page 117 Hef’s memo as to why he didn’t like: Carrie Pitzulo, Bachelors and Bunnies: The Sexual Politics of Playboy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011), 142.
CHAPTER 9 “JOE—SURRENDER”
Page 140 The Post women ended up filing: Chalmers M. Roberts, The Washington Post: The First 100 Years (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1977), 429.
Page 141 “It was shortly after [the Metro Seven settlement]”: Dorothy Gilliam oral history, Washington Press Club Foundation, 1992–1993; http://beta.wpcf.org/oralhistory/gill4.html.
Page 141 Her close friend at the Post: Graham, Personal History, 421.
Page 156 The case had gotten so poisonous: Robertson, Girls in the Balcony, 203, 205.
Page 159 On October 4, 1974, fifteen women filed: Media Report to Women, ed. Dr. Donna Allen, December 1, 1974.
CHAPTER 10 THE BARRICADES FELL
Page 162 Its “statement of purpose” declared: “The National Black Feminist Organization’s Statement of Purpose, 1973,” University of Michigan–Dearborn; www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~ppennock/doc-BlackFeminist.htm.
Page 163 The largest employer of women, the Bell System: Crista DeLuzio, ed., Women’s Rights: People and Perspectives (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2009), 197.
Page 163 In 1971, a feminist attorney named Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “Breaking New Ground—Reed v. Reed, 404 US 71 (1971),” Supreme Court Historical Society; www.supremecourthistory.org/learning-center/womens-rights/breaking-new-ground.
Page 164 However, President Richard Nixon vetoed it: Abby J. Cohen, “A Brief History of Federal Financing for Child Care in the United States,” Future of Children Journal 6, no. 2 (Summer/Fall 1996): 32; http://futureofchildren.org/futureofchildren/publications/docs/06_02_01.pdf.
Page 164 By the end of 1971, stories on the new women’s movement: Ruth Rosen, The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America (New York: Penguin Books, 2006), 302.
Page 164 Distrusting the coverage of the women’s movement: Patricia Bradley, Mass Media and the Shaping of American Feminism, 1963–1975 (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003), 49.
Page 164 Beginning in 1968, publications calling for social change: Martha Allen, “Multi-Issue Women’s Periodicals: The Pioneers,” Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press; www.wifp.org/womensmediach3.html.
Page 164 In all, more than five hundred feminist periodicals: Kathryn T. Flannery, Feminist Literacies, 1968–75 (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2005), 23.
Page 165 That same year, NOW filed a petition: “Broadcasting Cases,” National Women and Media Collection, Donna Allen (1920–1999) Papers, 1920–1992 (C3795), State Historical Society of Missouri, University of Missouri, Columbia; http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/invent/3795.html#broa
Page 165 In February 1973, fifty women at NBC: “City Rights Unit Finds NBC Sexism,” New York Times, January 24, 1975.
Page 165 The case would be settled in 1975 for $2 million: Arnold H. Lubash, “$2 Million NBC Pact Is Set as a Settlement with Women of Staff,” New York Times, February 17, 1977.
Page 166 In March 1970, a reporter for the British newsmagazine: Lilla Lyon, “The March of Time’s Women,” New York Magazine, February 22, 1971.
CHAPTER 11 PASSING THE TORCH
Page 193 “A merger has created”: “Daily Beast, Newsweek to Merge,” Morning Edition, National Public Radio, November 12, 2010.
EPILOGUE: WHERE THEY ARE NOW
Much of the information on Liz Peer came from Gwenda Blair, “The Heart of the Matter,” Manhattan Inc., October 1984, 73.
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INDEX
Abbott, Leandra Hennemann
ABC
Abortion rights
Abramson, Jill
Abzug, Bella
African Americans. See Black Americans
Agnew, Spiro
Agrest, Susan
Alexander, Shana
All Those Mornings. . . . At the Post (Povich)
Ambition gap
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Associated Press
AT&T
Atlantic (magazine)
Axthelm, Pete
Back pay
Ball, Sarah
Baltimore Sun (newspaper)
Barbi, Olga
Beatty, Warren
Beauv
oir, Simone de
Beebe, Frederick “Fritz,”
Benchley, Peter
Bender, Marilyn
Bennett, Jessica
Bernstein, Lester
Birth control pill,
Black Americans
in Congress
coverage of
as editors
feminist movement and women as
media-related lawsuit involving
no attempt by, at Newsweek, to organize
quotas and discrimination against, issue of
recruiting women as, for the lawsuit
as reporters
as researchers
signatories on the lawsuit and
in writing positions
Blair, Gwenda
Blocker, Joel
Blumenfeld, Helaine
Boeth, Dick
Bonventre, Pete
Borchgrave, Arnaud de
Borgeson, Roger
Boylan, Betsy Wade. See Wade, Betsy
Brackman, Jake
Bradlee, Ben
Braudy, Susan
Brazaitis, Tom
Breach-of-contract suit
Bright, Barbara
Brown, Helen Gurley
Brown, Tina
Brown v. Board of Education
Browning, Dominique
Brownmiller, Susan
Broyles, Bill
Brynner, Rock
Buckley, Kevin
Business Week (magazine)
Califano, Joe
Camp, Holly
Camper, Diane
Carroll, Connie
Carroll, Kathleen
Carter, Betsy