In her famous expose about working as a Playboy Bunny, Steinem sold her co-workers short and completely failed to see them for the feminists they were.
and I briefly crossed paths 60 years ago—and I’m finally coming to terms with it. I was Gloria’s training Bunny at the New York Playboy Club in 1963. In her two-partmagazine article, “A Bunny’s Tale,” she referred to me as the “Chinese Bunny who stuffed her costume with gym socks.”
I’d enrolled at Hunter College at age 16, immediately after graduating from high school. I was carrying a heavy class load and needed a break when I saw an ad in: Girls, Be a Star! Step Into the Spotlight and Be a Playboy Bunny! With literally thousands of young women auditioning, getting hired as one of the first of the 110 Bunnies employed at the club really did make me feel like a star.
Let’s say “recollections may vary” about what Gloria stated in her article and what Bunnies who worked with her at the time experienced—but that’s not what sticks in my craw all these years later. Diversity was prized at Playboy. The year the New York club opened, Hugh Hefner bought back two franchise clubs, Miami and New Orleans, because of their racial bias towards both customers and employees. In the New York club, 15-17 percent of Bunnies were minorities, including African-American, Latino, and Asian women—including me.
In 1966, I was hired by Blue Cross and developed their first customer on-line inquiry system. Three years later, I became the second highest ranking woman in the company—and I still wasn’t making what I’d earned as a Playboy Bunny!prepare me for, was becoming a pioneer in a male dominated work environment. I had come from a workplace where a young, female workforce held power and earned more than their immediate male superiors, the Room Directors.
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