Remembering Mary Tyler Moore

Characters Mary Richards and her sidekick, Rhoda Morgenstern, represented independent and empowered women. But it was the women behind the scenes, Armstrong argues, who were role models for women who wanted to start a career.The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which Armstrong calls "TV's first truly female-dominated sitcom," first aired in 1970. America was in the middle of the women's rights movement; The Feminine Mystique, released in 1963, urged women to envision work outside the home, touching a nerve for housewives. But for the first time ever, these women were real. They had hopes, dreams, and ambitions—just like the women who created them. The Atlantic by Hope Reese We talk with the Chicago AD lady Emma Young about women in  television news and the  media in the 1970s