Nan Robertson

Nan Robertson, 'Girls in the Balcony' Author, Dead at 83

The legal battle for "workplace parity" at The New York Times waged by a group of courageous women at the paper helped pave the way for female journalists like myself to have equal opportunities in the business. Nan Robertson wrote the history about the fight in "The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and The New York Times." Robertson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times, died Tuesday. She was 83.The balcony in the title of Robertson's book is a reference to the National Press Club, which banned women from membership until 1971, so it's not ancient history. Back then, when ...

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