Is Ambition Still a Dirty Word for Female Characters? βHacksβ Shows How That Perception Is Changing (Guest Column)
Ambition has almost always been a thorny issue for televisionβs fictional females. When Mary Richards applied for a secretarial job at a local television station in Minneapolis on βThe Mary Tyler Moore Showβ in the 1970s, she ended up as an associate producer by the end of the interview. News director Lou Grant gave her [β¦]