Will ‘Good Girls’ Continue Revolt Against Workplace Bias?

The short-lived Amazon TV series “Good Girls Revolt” highlights a landmark 1970 gender bias case against Newsweek. A woman who helped lead the real-life revolt says that decades later the struggle for workplace equality is far from over.

“We thought 40-some years ago that if you passed nondiscriminatory laws and hopefully enforced them, things would change,” Lynn Povich told Bloomberg BNA Dec. 19. “What we didn’t realize is how difficult it was to change attitudes because you can’t legislate attitude.”

Povich was a plaintiff in the Newsweek case and wrote the book on which the series was based.

The show, ...