Harriet Alpern
Interview Summary
- Born in Detroit
- After WWII, women could go to any college, but they could generally only study and find employment in fields of secretarial work, teaching, or social work
- Detroit Athletic Club walk-in
- Bell Telephone and employment discrimination
- Images of women in the media, and older women in the media
- “A law can be on the books, but if you don’t test it, it might as well not be there.”
- “Feminism, to me, is of course that men and women should have equal rights in every aspect of life – not to be discriminated against, undermined, or stereotyped.”