Jessica Bennett
Journalist and author
American journalist Jessica Bennett writes on gender and culture and was The New York Times' first gender editor. She wrote Feminist Fight Club.
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American Born in Seattle, United States
About Jessica Bennett
Jessica Bennett is an award-winning American journalist and author whose work focuses on gender, politics and culture. She was named the first gender editor of The New York Times in 2017, leading an effort to widen coverage of gender issues. Earlier, she was a staff writer at Newsweek and a columnist at Time. She was also a founding editor of the Lean In foundation started by Sheryl Sandberg. Her book Feminist Fight Club: A Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace was published by HarperCollins in 2016 and has been translated into seven languages.