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AdvertisingForget 'Mad Men', here's what the women of Madison Avenue really looked like in the 1960s
Peggy Olson is depicted as the sole female copywriter to wander the halls of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce in the "Mad Men" series' depiction of advertising in the 1960s, but women had actually been working in the industry for decades.Click here to see the real 'Mad Women'>JWT (then J. Walter Thompson) published a booklet in 1963 titled "Advertising: A Career For Women," to lure college women to Madison Avenue-and not just for its secretarial pool.JWT kindly agreed to let us excerpt the book…
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