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Jessica Bennett is an American journalist who writes on gender, sexuality and culture. She is a contributing writer and columnist for The New York Times and a former columnist at Time. She is the author of Feminist Fight Club: A Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace (HarperCollins, 2016).
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Personal background
Bennett grew up in Seattle, Washington, where she attended Garfield High School. She received a B.S. from Boston University, where she was a student reporter covering crime at The Boston Globe. She moved to New York City to become a research assistant to the investigative reporter Wayne Barrett at the Village Voice.
Career
Bennett began her career at Newsweek, where she spent seven years as a staff writer and editor, and won a NY Press Club award for the story on the Nikki Catsouras photographs controversy, about a family's struggle to remove their daughter's gruesome death photos from the internet. In 2010, she and two colleagues wrote a controversial cover story entitled "Are We There Yet?" about Newsweek's long history of sexism. It appeared on the 40th anniversary of a landmark lawsuit against Newsweek, in which 46 female staffers sued the company for gender discrimination. That story became a book, The Good Girls Revolt, by Lynn Povich and an Amazon television series of the same name.
Bennett left Newsweek to become the executive editor of Tumblr and later a contributing editor to Sheryl Sandberg's nonprofit Lean In, where she cofounded the Lean In Collection with Getty Images, a photo initiative to change the depiction of women in stock photography.
For The New York Times, Bennett has written on feminist sororities , sexual consent, female marijuana entrepreneurs and spent time with Hillary Clinton's childhood best friends. She also writes a column on digital language called Command Z. She has profiled Monica Lewinsky, Paula Broadwell, Whitney Wolfe of Bumble and wrote a viral piece about her Resting Bitch Face.
In 2016, Bennett published a book, Feminist Fight Club: A Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace, which was called "engaging, practical and hilarious" by Sheryl Sandberg and "a classic f--k you feminist battle guide" by Broad City's Ilana Glazer.
Awards and honors
Bennett has been honored by the Newswomen's Club of New York's , GLAAD Media Award , the New York Press Club and the International Center of Photography for her work on the Lean In Collection.