When the women rose up — and won
It was the first serious treatment of the women’s movement by a major news magazine. Ms magazine, the bible of the movement, would not be launched until the following year. But any satisfaction for the male editors was dispelled by a press conference that same morning by the women of Newsweek to announce they were suing the magazine for gender discrimination.
The fallout from that lawsuit, which the women won, chipped away at the “Mad Men” culture that had reigned for so long, bringing women into the conversation and changing the way Newsweek reported on an array of issues that would over the decades transform life as I had known it.
