Published in 2016
336 pages
Jessica Bennett is an award-winning journalist and author who writes on gender, sexuality and culture. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times, where she has covered sexual assault on campus, profiled female pot entrepreneurs, and was the first journalist to profile Monica Lewinsky in a decade. She also writes a column on digital language called Command Z.
A former staff writer at Newsweek and columnist at Time, Jessica is the author of Feminist Fight Club: A Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace, which has been translated into seven languages. She was a founding editor of Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In foundation, where she cofounded the Lean In Photography Collection, an initiative with Getty Images to change the depiction of women in stock imagery. Jessica has spoken at Harvard, Facebook, Google, Cannes Lions, Reuters, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and frequently to her dog Charlie, who serves as her speech coach.
What is this book about?
It was a fight club—but without the fighting or the men. Every month, women would gather in a New York apartment to share sexist-job frustrations and trade strategies for how to tackle them. For years, these meetings were kept secret. But the time has come to talk about the club.
In Feminist Fight Club, acclaimed journalist Jessica Bennett blends the personal story of her real-life fight club with a studied assessment of the gender gap that continues to plague the American workplace. With equal measures wit and rigor, Bennett provides the tactical strategies—and the camaraderie—every woman needs to fight back, as well as tools for the men who support the cause.
