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more about #womeninadvertising more comments → lismckinley: Joy wrote clever copy for everything from cosmetics to beer snacks, found her true voice writing funny radio ads (e.g, Laughing Cow Cheese) and worked... more » Mrs. Stephen Fry: Love her! She's just beautiful. And I agree with her. She IS funny. more » drinkwater: I love this woman!!! more » Samantha Cornwell: This makes me weirdly misty eyed/ optimistic in regards to the future of our dearest Peggy. Although she kicks ass in most ways, I often fear that she... more » redqueenmeg: I think there's something very wrong with the fact that I'm jealous of Peggy's work situation. Yes, there are so many obstacles in the way of her upw... more » RenoMartini: So, interesting 60's anecdote: my maternal grandmother worked her way up from secretary to pricing negotiator for a major aviation company from the 50... more » PorkStore: "Knock on my cubicle."...heeh.... Just me? more » Piranha426: "Brains, heart, and sex." Forget "Celebrity, sex, fashion" - Jezebel, I think you've found your new tagline! more » RipCurl: "Elegant" hanky-panky. It makes me wish I was a young career woman in the 60s. Sigh... more » ninles: Hahah she rocks my world! I have to say, not that it's important or anything, but she looks absolutely fantastic, I would have never guessed that she ... more » ImDatNinja (loves her Red Sox): In my dreams I will be her coworker at SterlingCooper (or its newest incarnantion). more » eclare09: First of all, her name is Joy Golden. That alone makes her fucking awesome. more » berlitzfrench: Male domination is pretty prevalent in medicine too. One of my professors asked me why I was trying to become a doctor when I could just marry one ins... more » honeydooo: Not in the ad business, but I am a graphic designer. And, during my review last year, 90% of it was a critique of my "spicy" personality, meaning I di... more » Trulymadlyme: Having a lot of friends in the industry, I do think that the sexism has greatly declined. The large agency where I know a lot of people at various lev... more » -
#madmen
Meet Joy Golden: The Real Peggy Olsen
"They call me, you know, a legend," said Joy Golden. We were at the Selling the Sixties screening and I had just asked her if she was the real Peggy Olsen. She is, in fact, one of them. More » -
#madworld
"Good Ideas Have No Genitals," So Why's Advertising Still A Man's Game?
"It was basically an episode of Mad Men," says one female creative director of her industry. And while we love that actual ad pros also use the show as a reference point, it doesn't sound like it's changed that much: More »
