#GAReads | The Best Era for Working Women Was 20 Years Ago

Murphy Brown

"The Best Era for Working Women Was 20 Years Ago":

We didn’t know it then, but that was the apex for the American working woman. It’s fitting that “Murphy Brown” left the airwaves in 1998. It would only be two years later that the share of American women over 16 who are in the labor force would hit its peak: 60.3 percent in April 2000.

The late 1990s — Murphy Brown’s decade — may have been as good as it gets for American women in the workplace.

Read Bryce Covert's full article at The New York Times here…