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Even after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, working women still found themselves relegated to secretarial positions or locked out of jobs entirely, especially in the news business, a backwater of male chauvinism. But when a pioneering nonprofit called National Public Radio came along in the 1970s, and the door to serious journalism opened a crack, four remarkable women — Susan Stamberg, Linda Wertheimer, Nina Totenberg, and Cokie Roberts — came along and blew it off the hinges. They fought sexism, covered American news for decades, and through their voices defined NPR.