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The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New York Times

The story of how the women of the Times—from prize-winning reporters to accountants and clerks—sought to gain respect and parity in jobs and pay, and to make the paper live up to its own ideals. It is the story of their struggle to gain equality with men at the world's most respected newspaper.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 296 pages

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