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storyboard: Lady Comics: Who Needs Late Night? We’ve Got...

jessbennett — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:16:07 -0400

Lady Comics: Who Needs Late Night? We’ve Got Tumblr

If you ask a female comedian how social media has impacted her professional life, she will likely respond like Elaine Carroll. “Social media has made my career,” says Carroll, the 30-year-old creator of the Very Mary Kate web series, a spoof of Mary Kate Olsen’s glam life in New York.

Remember just a few years back, when comedians (of any gender) relentlessly chased guest spots at the feet of David Letterman and Jay Leno? Getting a gig on late night was the ultimate career boost, but women comedians had to fight through the prejudices both professional (like infamously misogynist Letterman booker Eddie Brill) and cultural (let’s all try to forget that Christopher Hitchens essay).

But the level playing field of Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr means no one gets between ambitious talent and a potentially receptive audience. All it takes is perseverance, ability, skill, and infinite patience.

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jessbennett: life: “Saucy Feminist That Even Men Like” — May...

jessbennett — Mon, 07 May 2012 11:53:16 -0400

jessbennett:

life:

“Saucy Feminist That Even Men Like” — May 7, 1971 issue of LIFE.

Well, okay. What a headline, LIFE.

Is this real?!

Planned Parenthood is on Tumblr!

jessbennett — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:38:22 -0400

barackobama:

plannedparenthood:

Planned Parenthood is excited to be launching our new Tumblr that’s all about sexual and reproductive health – bodies, birth control, relationship issues, “is it normal for this to do this?” type things. In the coming weeks and months we’ll be sharing what we know, answering questions, and just… tumblring.

We hope you like it! And we hope it helps.

Welcome to the neighborhood!

philipncohen: Do Google searches foretell an increase in...

jessbennett — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:18:14 -0400

philipncohen:

Do Google searches foretell an increase in divorce rates?

Fascinating.

publicaffairsbooks: On this Administrative Professionals’ Day,...

jessbennett — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:51:49 -0400

publicaffairsbooks:

On this Administrative Professionals’ Day, a photo of our author Lynn Povich—who became the first woman senior editor at Newsweek—back when she was a researcher in the Paris office. Lynn’s book, The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace, comes out in September.

And we are the NEWSWEEK women who, 40 years after that lawsuit, wrote about what had — and hadn’t — changed for women at NEWSWEEK. Can’t wait to see the full book.

In a room of 25 engineers, only three will be women. Tumblrs...

jessbennett — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:48:27 -0400

In a room of 25 engineers, only three will be women. Tumblrs aiming to curb the STEM divide:

* IAmScience

* This is What a Scientist Looks Like

* Big Black Glasses

* Malibu Einstein

* It’s OK To Be Smart

Who are we missing?? (h/t ashdryden)

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, Y’ALL! A STORY IN GIFS (via...

jessbennett — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:39:02 -0500

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, Y’ALL!
A STORY IN GIFS

(via Ann Friedman)

“All of us have stories of being told, outright, ‘We don’t hire...

jesseellison — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:26:43 -0500

“All of us have stories of being told, outright, ‘We don’t hire women’ or ‘We have our woman.’”

jesseellison:

The Old Girls’ Club sat in a corner of the newsroom the men referred to as “the fallopian jungle,” and swiftly became the broadcaster’s earliest stars.

nprfreshair:

How NPR Became A Hotbed For Female Journalists (via @thedailybeast)

danielleh: good: Women Make Less Than Men at Every Education...

jessbennett — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:32:49 -0500

danielleh:

good:

Women Make Less Than Men at Every Education Level

Among Americans with some form of post-high school education—a vocational, associate’s, bachelor’s, or advanced degree—men make more than $800 above women’s pay every month. And the gap widens as men and women climb educational ranks. In short, education is valuable, but it’s most lucrative if you’re male.

Read about it on GOOD→

Ladies, we have to start negotiating the living shit out of our salaries. Everywhere, every job.

huffingtonpost: They’re more likely to be seen in sexy clothing...

jessbennett — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:46:17 -0500

huffingtonpost:

They’re more likely to be seen in sexy clothing (25.8 percent to men at 4.7 percent) and more likely to be partially naked (23.6 percent to 7.4 percent).

Is it time to change that ratio?

Women Are Underrepresented, Oversexualized In Top Films: Study

"At the time, the explanation [for an off-color joke Paterno made about beating his wife] easily..."

jessbennett — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:47:14 -0500

“At the time, the explanation [for an off-color joke Paterno made about beating his wife] easily satisfied JoePa supporters—who’d become used to this kind of banter. But in the wake of 40 counts of sexual assault against Paterno’s longtime defensive mastermind, Jerry Sandusky, the toxicity of that testosterone-steeped sports culture, and the role it might have played in this scandal, isn’t very funny. The comparisons between Penn State and the Catholic Church may have become too many to count, but perhaps the biggest one is so obvious we don’t see it: Football, like the priesthood, is one of the few places in our culture where being a woman is actually more sacrilegious than saying you’re going to go home and beat one.”

- Could Women Have Saved Penn State? - The Daily Beast

(via notadinnerparty)

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jesseellison — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:35:45 -0400

40 Under 40: Business's hottest rising stars

jesseellison — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:18:28 -0400

40 Under 40: Business's hottest rising stars:

angelawublog:

I was clicking through the slideshow today, and around #10 (Sid Sankaran of AIG) I realized that I hadn’t seen a single woman.

So I kept clicking. No. 11, Sergey Brin of Google. No. 13, Ryan Seacrest of…RYAN SEACREST??? OK, whatever, sure. No. 18, Daniel Elk of Spotify…

It took me 20 clicks to find one woman—Marissa Mayer, long-time Googler.

On Fortune’s list of the 40 hottest business stars under 40—a list that, with a few ties, actually includes 45 people—there were six women! That’s 13 percent! That’s shocking to me!

Now, I like Fortune. I’ve also never bothered to count the number of women on any list before. (But now that we’ve started—Fortune’s covers for this feature give us 3 men and 3 women, and the homepage for the list features 4 women, 2 men, and what appears to be Mark Zuckerberg as a baby.)

But I’m just pretty sure there are more than six women who might qualify for this list of FORTY-FIVE people.

jesseellison: “I wonder what it would be like if I were a male rock star? Maybe I just could be...

jessbennett — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:32:40 -0400

jesseellison:

“I wonder what it would be like if I were a male rock star? Maybe I just could be like ‘fuck it’ and keep someone hanging there. But, I don’t know… It just doesn’t feel right. And I definitely don’t have groupies. No, the evening always ends with me and my friend in my hotel room watching romantic comedies going, ‘We’re never getting married.’”

This was fun.

Check out Jesse’s profile of Florence Welch in this week’s Newsweek.

longreads: This June, the paper’s publisher, Arthur...

jesseellison — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:51:06 -0400

longreads:

This June, the paper’s publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., announced the appointment of Abramson and of Dean Baquet, who is black, as the new managing editor. Many who gathered in the newsroom that day were thinking of this history. Not a few women cried. Susan Chira, an assistant managing editor, says that she kept thinking that when she joined the Times, in 1981, manyTimes women were “sad, bitter, angry people who were talented but who had been thwarted.” Editors openly propositioned young women. “I can’t believe how far we’ve come. To see Jill take the mantle, I felt tingling. You have to praise and savor when a woman can earn it through merit. No tokenism here. Jill studied for this job. She earned it.”

“Changing Times.” — Ken Auletta, The New Yorker

Feminist Ryan Gosling: what timing! A week from today is annual...

jessbennett — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:45:35 -0400

Feminist Ryan Gosling: what timing! A week from today is annual Love Your Body day, sponsored by the NOW Foundation.

Nancy LeBrun: How the Vacuum Changed the World

jessbennett — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 11:20:41 -0400

Nancy LeBrun: How the Vacuum Changed the World:

nlebrun:

No matter how much we may think we still feel the yoke of housework, electric appliances like the vacuum helped fling open the window for women back in the early part of the 20th century.

Think of it! No more dragging heavy Persian rugs outside to beat the bejesus out of them for hours on end. Finally! Some help cleaning the endless soot that settled from gas lamps and fires.

Oct. 3 marks the 112th anniversary of the patent for the first vacuum.

Our Bodies, Ourselves Turns 40

jessbennett — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:00:14 -0400

Our Bodies, Ourselves Turns 40

The Global Women's Progress Report: Newsweek Ranks the Best and Worst Places to be a Woman

jessbennett — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:42:06 -0400

The Global Women's Progress Report: Newsweek Ranks the Best and Worst Places to be a Woman

Nora Ephron on the premiere of NBC’s The Playboy Club, in this...

jessbennett — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:37:53 -0400

Nora Ephron on the premiere of NBC’s The Playboy Club, in this week’s NEWSWEEK:

I worry (as someone who was an adult in the 1960s) that young people will see The Playboy Club and think that this is what life was like back then and that Hefner, as he also says in his weird, creepy voice-over, was in fact “changing the world, one Bunny at a time.”

So I would like to say this:

1. Trust me, no one wanted to be a Bunny.

2. A Bunny’s life was essentially that of an underpaid waitress forced to wear a tight costume.

3. Playboy did not change the world.

More: A history of the Playboy club (photos).