Lynn Sherr
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Lynn Sherr (born March 4, 1942) is an American
20/20
.
Life
Sherr was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended Lower Merion High School in Ardmore. She received a B.A. from Wellesley College
.
She was a freelance host at
She received a 1994
anorexia
.
Feminism
Sherr is a
Planned Parenthood Federation of America's (PPFA) Margaret Sanger Award (known as the "Maggie"), which is awarded to journalists for "exceptional coverage of reproductive rights and health care issues" in the view of PPFA.[3] She also hosted PPFA's Maggie Awards luncheon in 2010.[3]
Sherr has rejected calls for a "new feminism" and remarked, "What's wrong with the old feminism?"[4] She strongly criticized Sarah Palin for calling herself a feminist: "What, exactly, has she done legislatively for other women? What paths has she forged?"[4]
Sherr was featured in the Jewish Women's Archive web feature Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution.[5]
Published works
References
- ^ "Sitemap".
- ^ Ariens, Chris (7 October 2008). "Lynn Sherr on Leaving ABC: "It's a Very Different Audience, with Very Different Demands"". TVNewser. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
- ^ a b "Rachel Maddow, Glamour Magazine, and the AJC's Cynthia Tucker Among Planned Parenthood's 2010 Maggie Award Winners". www.plannedparenthood.org.
- ^ a b "TVNewser | Jobs in TV News". www.mediabistro.com. Archived from the original on December 15, 2009.
- ^ "Feminism | Jewish Women's Archive". jwa.org.
External links
- ABC News 20/20 profile
- Lynn Sherr at IMDb
- The Giraffe Conservation Foundation where Lynn Sherr is a Founding Patron.
- Appearances on C-SPAN