Bennett offers a new vocabulary for the sexist workplace archetypes women encounter every day - such as the Manterrupter, who talks over female colleagues in meetings, or the Himitator, who appropriates their ideas - and provides practical hacks for navigating other gender landmines in today's working world. Hard hitting and entertaining, Feminist Fight Club blends personal stories with research, statistics, and no-bullsh*t expert advice. But the problems of today's working world are more subtle, less pronounced, harder to identify - and harder to prove - than those of their foremothers. Once upon a time, you might have called them a consciousness-raising group. Every month the women would huddle in a friend's apartment to share sexist job frustrations and trade tips for how best to tackle them. It was a fight club - but without the fighting and without the men. Part manual, part manifesto, a humorous yet incisive guide to navigating subtle sexism at work - a Lean In for the Buzzfeed generation that provides real-life career advice and humorous reinforcement for a new generation of professional women.

Yes, she's in a real-life feminist fight club. She is the cofounder of the Lean In Collection with Getty Images, a photo initiative to change the depiction of women in stock photography. Military Academy at West Point, Harvard, Facebook, Google, Thompson Reuters and others. Jessica has spoken about journalism and gender equality at leading institutions and government agencies, including the U.S. She was editor of This Is 18, a project to showcase the lives of 18-year-old girls around the world - which was recently adapted into a book by Abrams. As an editor, she launched the Overlooked obituaries project, which provides long-overdue obituaries for women who never received them, and helped launched the inaugural New York Times New Rules Summit, a conference on women and work. Jean Carroll, Katie Hill and Jennifer Aniston. That story became a book, t he Good Girls Revolt, by Newsweek's first female senior editor, Lynn Povich, and later an Amazon series.Īs a writer for The New York Times and other outlets, Jessica has covered #MeToo, authored a column on internet language, spent time with Hillary Clinton's BFFs and profiled women such as Monica Lewinsky, E. Jessica began her career at Newsweek, where she was a writer and editor. With two colleagues, she wrote a cover story documenting the little known story of 46 women who sued the magazine for gender discrimination in the 1970s. She served as the first-ever Gender Editor of The New York Times, where was charged with expanding global coverage of women and gender across platforms. Jessica Bennett is an award-winning journalist and author who writes on social issues and culture.

Feminist Fight Club by Jessica Bennett