This cat just read in Newsweek that sexism still exists!!
(Big ups to the women at feministing for giving us a break from an otherwise heavy day.)
My name is Jesse. I am a writer for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. I am not a boy.
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Nora Ephron Recalls First Job at Newsweek
Being told that “women don’t write here,” via NYMag.
Nora Ephron, with notebook, covering Robert F. Kennedy’s 1964 senate campaign for the New York Post. (Photo: Arty Pomerantz)
Read more: Excerpted From ‘My First New York,’ Nora Ephron, Ashley Dupré, and Others Share Their Early Days — New York Magazine
This was the cover of Newsweek on March 16, 1970—the same day 46 female staffers sued the company for gender discrimination. Funny that the woman is a) naked and b) breaking out of the female gender symbol, but still great. The 1970 issue—and what came after it—was the inspiration for this blog.
“What Role for the Educated Woman?” “Midi v. Mini” and other so-ridiculous-they’re-amazing vintage Newsweek covers. See the full gallery: The Language of Liberation.
Today in Vintage Mags…
I find this advertisement very confusing.
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Us too.
“I don’t want to get married. Why spoil a good friend by making a bad husband out of him?”
-Dorothy Sebastian (1927, photo by Clarence Bull)
“Bicycling has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammeled womanhood.”
Susan B. Anthony
