#GoodRead | The ‘Golden Age for Women in TV’ Is Actually a Rerun

Golden Girls

"The ‘Golden Age for Women in TV’ Is Actually a Rerun":

Women were on a roll that night in 1990, but it didn’t seem like I was witnessing a golden age. It just seemed obvious that women could compete at the highest levels of comedy and win. Only decades later did I realize it was a spike, not a trend.

Like leggings, comedies created by women came into vogue in the late 1980s, exploded in the early ’90s, went mainstream in the mid-90s and were shoved into the back of the closet around 1997.

Read Nell Scovell's full article at The New York Times here…