Thurs., Sept. 19, 6 pm, trailblazing journalist Lynn Povich will speak and sign copies of her book The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace (PublicAffairs, pb., 304 pp, $14.99) at the Charleston Library Society (164 King St).
Not only Newsweek magazine’s first female Senior Editor, but also one of the forty-six women who sued the publication in a landmark 1970 discrimination case, Lynn Povich is the author of The Good Girls Revolt, the critically-acclaimed, behind-the-scenes look at the event.
Since leaving Newsweek in 1991, she has been the editor-in-chief of Working Woman magazine, senior executive producer for MSNBC.com, and editor of All Those Mornings… At The Post, a collection of sports columns by her late father Shirley Povich. She is the winner of the Matrix Award for Exceptional Achievement in Magazines and the Exceptional Woman in Publishing Award from Women in Periodical Publishing.
The event is $10 for Charleston Library Society members and $15 for nonmembers. To purchase tickets, call 1-800-838-3006 or click here.
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