When Women Sued the New York Times

Gender Equity and Journalism in 1972

Forty-five years ago this week, a dozen women representing the Women's Caucus at The New York Times began a civil rights revolution in journalism. Their July 19, 1972 confrontation with publisher Arthur Ochs "Punch" Sulzberger and his board was, by 1974, a class action employment discrimination lawsuit, Boylan v. New York Times. ...
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When Women Sued the New York Times