Is Ambition Still a Dirty Word for Female Characters? ‘Hacks’ Shows How That Perception Is Changing (Guest Column)

Ambition has almost always been a thorny issue for television’s fictional females. When Mary Richards applied for a secretarial job at a local television station in Minneapolis on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” in the 1970s, she ended up as an associate producer by the end of the interview. News director Lou Grant gave her […]
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