Ken Auletta for the New Yorker: “At nine o’clock on the morning of September 6th, Jill Abramson was riding the subway uptown from her Tribeca loft. It was her first day as executive editor of the New York Times, and also the first time in the paper’s hun…
Barbara and Shannon Kelley for the Huffington Post: “Especially for women, who are often sabotaged by words in ways most of us don’t even recognize. Language, says Santa Clara University professor Laura Ellingson, an expert on gendered communication, c
Galen Sherwin for the New York Times: “The education crisis has led schools to search for ways to improve educational outcomes, particularly for disadvantaged students. Unfortunately, this has led many schools to turn to sex segregation. These programs a…
Jonathan Wall writing for Yahoo! Sports: “Like the rest of her Southampton (Va.) Academy teammates, Mina Johnson was supposed to be getting ready for a junior varsity football game on Thursday night against Lasker (N.C.) Northeast Academy…It all seemed…
Krystie Lee Yandoli for Women’s eNews: “One-in-four women in college today have been victims of rape, and nearly 90 percent of them knew their rapist, according to Robin Warshaw, author of the 1994 book, “I Never Called it Rape,” after conducting origina…