Ninety years ago today, the 19th Amendment was ratified, granting women the right to vote. It was revolutionary for the time. But if our grandmothers were born into a world where they weren’t allowed to have a political voice, what will the world look like for today’s young women? More ›
Even female attorneys within the highest-ranks of elite law firms are paid, on average, roughly $66,000 less than their male counterparts, according to a new study. More ›
Mae Jemison is a doctor, a Peace Corps alum, an Alvin Ailey–trained dancer, and, of course, an astronaut—becoming, in 1992, the world’s first woman of color to go to space. Eighteen years later, as the spokeswoman for Bayer Corp. More ›
Reuben Singh / Reuben SinghWhen historians write about the great recession of 2007–08, they may very well have a new name for it: the Mancession. It’s a term already being bandied about in the popular media as business writers chronicle the sad tales of the main victims of the recession: men. More ›
In 1972, when Mae Jemison was just 16 years old, she arrived at Stanford University, where she intended to pursue a degree in engineering. But it wasn’t long after arriving in Palo Alto that she learned that the university’s science departments weren’t nearly as enthusiastic about her as she was about them. More ›
Single-sex classes have increased by 4,000 percent in less than a decade. Can educating girls and boys separately fix our public schools, or does it reinforce outmoded gender stereotypes? More ›
Landmark cases against Novartis and Wal-Mart are wending their way through court and changing the way we all think about work. More ›
Sure, some weddings are fun—but too often they're a formulaic, overpriced, fraught rite of passage, marking entry into an institution that sociologists describe as "broken." Should smart women say "I don't"? More ›
Equal pay for equal work? Don't bet on it. President Obama may have made the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act the very first act he signed into law as president, but women still earn just 77 cents on the dollar on average, when compared to men. African-American and Hispanic women earn even less. More ›
This week’s New York magazine includes a piece called What If Women Ran Wall Street by Sheelah Kolhatkar, analyzing testosterone’s effects on the male-dominated world of trading. It’s not an altogether new point. Our own Mary Carmichael talked about it a couple of years ago. More ›
Jesse is an Articles Editor at Newsweek, covering education, culture, women’s issues, and health. She has written on everything from end of life health care, to her parents’ experiment with gender neutrality to Americans’ unhealthy obsession with their pets. She co-authored a story about sexism at work that marked the 40th anniversary of a landmark gender discrimination suit against Newsweek, and co-authors a related blog, The Equality Myth.
Jesse grew up in Maine, graduated cum laude from Barnard College, and received a Masters of Science from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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