About the Author

Jessica Bennett is an award-winning journalist and author who writes on social issues and culture. 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 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. That story became a book, the Good Girls Revolt, by Newsweek's first female senior editor, Lynn Povich, and later an Amazon series.

As 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. Jean Carroll, Katie Hill and Jennifer Aniston. 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. 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.

Jessica has spoken about journalism and gender equality at leading institutions and government agencies, including the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Harvard, Facebook, Google, Thompson Reuters and others. She is the cofounder of the Lean In Collection with Getty Images, a photo initiative to change the depiction of women in stock photography.

Yes, she's in a real-life feminist fight club. 

See more of her work at jessicabennett.com.

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