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The real-life rebellion behind Amazon’s Good Girls Revolt

2016 Anna Camp, Erin Darke and Genevieve Angelson portray fictional versions of the women who filed a groundbreaking lawsuit at Newsweek

THEY WERE HIGHLY EDUCATED WOMEN, SOME GRADUATES of Ivy League journalism programs. But at Newsweek magazine in the 1960s, they delivered packages, cut out newspaper clippings and, if they were lucky, did reporting for articles that only men were actually allowed to write. They suffered the typical sexism of the

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