Annoucing our sex discrimination suit against Newsweek with our lawyer Eleanor Holmes Norton, 1970

Events

Monday, April 29 6:30pm

Mid-Manhattan Public Library
455 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016

Lynn will discuss the landmark lawsuit and what's changed--and what hasn't--for women in the workplace.


Thursday, May 9, 11am

Portland, Ore.

Lynn will give the diversity lecture to the employees of the Ports of Portland


Monday, May 13, 12 noon

The Bottomless Closet Luncheon
Hilton New York Hotel
1335 Avenue of the Americas
New York City

Lynn will give the keynote address at The Bottomless Closet luncheon. Bottomless Closet helps disadvantaged New York City women become self-sufficient through a comprehensive program that begins with business attire and interview preparation and continues with professional development, financial management and personal enrichment.


Thursday, May 16 6pm

Vassar Club of New York
Place TBD

Lynn and Jessica Bennett will have an inter-generational conversation about women in the workplace--what's changed and what hasn't.


Monday, June 10

12 noon Lynn will speak to the Miami EEOC seminar
Hyatt Regency Miami

6:30pm Lynn will speak to the Miami-Dade Commission of Women and the Miami EEOC's Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Equal Pay Act


Friday, August 2

Congregation Shirat Hayam
Nantucket, MA

Lynn will speak at the Friday night service




PBS Television Stations

The AOL documentary MAKERS, produced by Dyllan McGee, Betsy West and Philip Kunhardt, will air on PBS, featuring Women Who Made--and Will Make--a Difference, including Lynn Povich

Selected Works

Books
PublicAffairs, September 10, 2012: How 46 women sued Newsweek for sex discrimination and helped start a revolution.
PublicAffairs, 2005: A front-row seat to the most awe-inspiring sports moments of the 20th Century, edited by Povich's children and former Washington Post Sports Editor, George Solomon

Quick Links

New York Times Styles Review
If ever a book could remind women to keep their white gloves off and to keep fighting the good fight, this is the one.
New York Times Business Review
Feminism is an incomplete revolution that has yet to reach its goals. But this sparkling, informative book may help move these goals a tiny bit closer.
Philadelphia Inquirer Review
With vivid recollections of the author and major and minor participants, Povich succeeds in making recent history enraging, poignant, and even sexy.
CNN's Starting Point
Lynn Povich talks about what's changed--and what hasn't--for women in the workplace
LA Times op-ed piece
Lynn Povich on how to fight the kind of subtle discrimination that exists today
The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC
Lynn Povich talks about the landmark sex discrimination suit against Newsweek
Columbia Journalism Review cover story July/​August 2012
Interview with Lynn Povich on the Newsweek women's suit and where women are now
Video of CJR interview
Young women in journalism today
Interview with Brian Lehrer
On the Newsweek women's suit over 40 years ago and what has changed
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