Good Girls Revolt: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Good Girls Revolt (2015): Drama. Series details, synopsis, cast and season dates from TVmaze.

By the Pop Culture Files editorial team•Updated September 30, 2026•2 min read•✓ Fact-checked

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Story and premise

It was the 1960's - a time of economic boom and social strife. Young women poured into the workplace, but the "Help Wanted" ads were segregated by gender and the "Mad Men" office culture was rife with sexual stereotyping and discrimination. Lynn Povich was one of the lucky ones, landing a job at Newsweek, renowned for its cutting-edge coverage of civil rights and the "Swinging Sixties." Nora Ephron, Jane Bryant Quinn, Ellen Goodman, and Susan Brownmiller all started there as well. It was a top-notch job - for a girl - at an exciting place. But it was a dead end.

Women researchers sometimes became reporters, rarely writers, and never editors. Any aspiring female journalist was told, "If you want to be a writer, go somewhere else." On March 16, 1970, the day Newsweek published a cover story on the fledgling feminist movement entitled "Women in Revolt," forty-six Newsweek women charged the magazine with discrimination in hiring and promotion. It was the first female class action lawsuit--the first by women journalists--and it inspired other women in the media to quickly follow suit. Lynn Povich was one of the ringleaders.

Series details

Title: Good Girls Revolt
Format: Scripted
Language: English
Genres: Drama
Premiere date: 2015-11-05
Final broadcast date listed: 2016-10-28
Status in TVmaze: Ended
Web channel listed by TVmaze: Prime Video
Typical episode runtime: 55 minutes
TVmaze community rating: 7.8/10
TVMaze ID: 2518

Cast and credited roles

Genevieve Angelson — Patti Robinson
Anna Camp — Jane Hollander
Chris Diamantopoulos — Evan Phinnaeus 'Finn' Woodhouse
Erin Darke — Cindy Reston
Hunter Parrish — Douglas Rhodes
Joy Bryant — Eleanor Holmes Norton

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

Season 1: premiered 2015-11-05; final listed air date 2016-10-28; episode order: 10.

Source and licence

Adapted from Good Girls Revolt on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.