[1] Her father, Ernest, worked as a municipal bond salesman on Wall Street until the Great Depression and subsequently became an insurance broker; her mother, Mignon (Schwarz), was a housewife who wrote in community papers.
[1] She also reviewed art by Francis Hines,[4] Cynthia Carlson,[5] Joseph Glasco,[6] George Grosz,[7] Max Weber, Oscar Florianus Bluemner,[8] Mike Kelley,[9] Robert Arneson,[10] Jackie Ferrara,[11] Ad Reinhardt,[12] Joel Meyerowitz,[13][14] Lucas Samaras,[15] Aldo Tambellini,[16] and Carmen Herrera, among others.
"[1] This ultimately led to a class-action lawsuit against the paper five years later, filed by eight of her female colleagues alleging sex discrimination in contravention of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The case concluded in 1978 with a court settlement, in which the Times acquiesced to hiring more women across the corporate hierarchy and establishing annuities to compensate for "delayed career advancement or denied opportunity".
[1] Glueck was the co-author, with Paul Gardner, of Brooklyn: People and Places, Past and Present (1991)[18] and New York: The Painted City (1992).