Peggy on Mad Men and the Choices of Women Today
September 5, 2008 by Cherie Burbach
Filed under Parenting
Have you seen the show Mad Men on AMC? It’s about an ad agency in the 1960s and has just received 16 Emmy nominations. One of my favorite story lines on Mad Men is about the junior copywriter Peggy. (The actress that plays Peggy is shown above, along with a poster from the show.)
Peggy has me thinking a lot about working women. The character had a child out of wedlock from a guy in the office where she works, and when she went into the hospital to have the child she didn’t even realize she was pregnant. (A bit of denial there.)
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