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Hired as a Token, She Used It for a Ride to Court
Wade, the New York Times" Practical Traveler columnist, rose from being the first woman on the Times"s copy desk to become its first female copy desk chief. Realizing that being a "first" was not enough, in 1974 she became the lead of the seven named plaintiffs in a sex-discrimination class action suit against the Times. Four years later, the Times settled. In the late 1970s, Wade also served as the first women president the Newspaper Guild"s New York local.
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