![]() ![]() They complained to the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that they are “systematically discriminated against in both hiring and promotion and are forced to assume a subsidiary role simply because they are women.” Newsweek‘s women were particularly incensed because the magazine had commissioned a freelance woman writer to do the Women’s Liberation cover story. Newsweek‘s cover story on “Women in Revolt” was scarcely on the stands when 46 women researchers, reporters and the magazine’s one woman writer staged a revolt of their own. The following week, TIME explained what was going on, and how the issue wasn’t just about one magazine: The day that Newsweek ran a cover story about the feminist movement, the Newsweek women put the story’s subject into practice. In 1970, “the dollies” decided they were fed up. ![]()
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