The Girls in the Office

A 1970’s compilation of single, liberated, bright, attractive, well-paid women employed in one of the most famous, prestigious and enviable New York City corporations. Jack Olsen has interviewed them in depth and recorded their candid, bitter, assessments of themselves and each other, their intimate observations on the men they work for, sleep with, cover for, despise.

He has encouraged them to talk freely about their pasts, their families, their ambitions, sex during and after hours, female chauvinism, professional ethics, and their desperate entrapment- - tenaciously holding on to their jobs despite strong, conflicting feelings about the lives they lead.

What keeps then here? Why do they stay? How are they affected by the new currents in women’s lives, women’s lib, “sisterhood,” the determination to be treated as equals in work and love?

Jack Olsen has gotten it all together in a shocking, poignant, powerful indictment of the quality of life-in-the-big-city that reads like a novel but is real life as actually lived by fifteen very different, talented, single women who share to varying extents a common despair at what their “advantaged status” has brought…and what it really cost to have the best of everything.