The Girls in the Office

In the early 1970s, Jack Olsen gained access to fifteen women working at one of New York City's most prestigious corporations. They were single, educated, well-paid, and by every external measure living the dream. He sat down with each of them and asked them to tell the truth.

What they told him was not what anyone expected.

Olsen steps back entirely in this book, letting the women speak without interruption, in their own words. What emerges is a portrait of lives lived under enormous pressur...