BY LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL Ever since Mad Men ended, I’ve been a little glum, apropos my TV viewing, but Good Girls Revolt on Amazon Prime Video has turned things around for me. The music alone makes it worth watching. Based on Lynn Povich’s book by the same name, the new drama series set in 1969, follows the transformation “from career girls to feminists” of a group of researchers at the fictional News of the Week magazine. The show re-enacts the uprising at Newsweek in 1970, when the women, who held researcher positions, filed an EEOC complaint (which lead to suing) over the magazine’s policy that only men could hold the title of “reporter.” Although the researchers were doing their share of reporting—finding, sourcing, and helping to craft stories—they would never see their names in a byline.
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