📉After decades of progress, new data shows the #genderpaygap has done a U-turn and is now widening. 💰In 2024, women working full-time earned a median salary only 81% of their male counterparts; sliding backwards for the second year in a row. I spoke to @josiecox.bsky.social for The51% as to why.

Last week I wrote for @thetimes.com about Taylor and Travis and marriage and divorce and money and power and ego…and how all those things are connected. Dare you to read past the headline before trolling me ✌️ www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

Thoughts & prayers to all parents this week who have, since June, coordinated about 6 thousands weeks of camp and paid about 9 million dollars for extra childcare. In many places camps have all ended, school don’t start until post-labor day, and college kid babysitters have gone back already.

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Thank you for sharing @pegcheng.bsky.social!

My most recent interview with @josiecox.bsky.social on why workplaces are failing dads which have negative impact on the unequal division of work at home but also in the labour market, and larger social consequences. www.businessinsider.com/millennial-d...

Millennial dads spend much more time with their kids than their boomer parents, but they're still struggling to break the breadwinner stereotype.

Millennial dads want to be equal partners at home—but outdated norms and policy structures stand in the way. As @jessicacalarco.com notes, we haven’t prepared boys to be caregivers or built systems that support care as a shared responsibility. www.businessinsider.com/millennial-d...

The Backlash is out, with stuff on the authority gap, invisible labour, 3 years since Dobbs, trans rights and the Supreme Court, and Bonnie Blue, and links to writing by @lubakas.bsky.social, @josiecox.bsky.social & @pperry.bsky.social thebacklash.substack.com/p/the-author...

American women are poised to inherit trillions in wealth in the coming decades. Today’s @bostonglobe.com Starting Point explores whether it will also give them more power, with insights from @josiecox.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/12/n...

This week on The Female Body Politic, I’m joined by financial journalist, broadcaster, and author of WOMEN MONEY POWER, @josiecox.bsky.social Tune in as we explore the roots and impact of gender-based financial inequality through the lens of her groundbreaking book.

Photographer Nancy Borowick spent years documenting the effects of grief. Now, she turns her lens to stillbirth and its effect on the women who lose their babies. Read her Q&A with @josiecox.bsky.social and see more of her extraordinary photos here. buff.ly/4FXLbdt

The only Eurovision live blog anyone needs is my family WhatsApp group.

My latest for @msmagazine.com on Katharine Dexter McCormick, who used her fortune and fierce determination to quietly bankroll one of the most revolutionary inventions in women’s history: the birth control pill. msmagazine.com/2025/05/08/k...

For @bloomberg.com I explored the "paternity leave paradox." New dads aren't taking parental leave even though *loads* of data and research show that paternity leave is good for baby, good for dad, good for mom, good for employers and for good for society at large. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Our cover this week.

BREAKING: An immigration court determined our client Mahmoud Khalil to be removable from the U.S. based solely on his political speech. The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

The stories about World War II that shine a light on women rarely mention women of color. Read our Q&A from @josiecox.bsky.social with the actor Ebony Obsidian who starred in Tyler Perry’s 2024 film ‘The Six Triple Eight’.

Trump’s executive order on elections may prevent millions from being able to vote, including married people, those who’ve transitioned genders, and people born during segregation, reports @josiecox.bsky.social: www.thepersistent.com/voting-right...

At least I'm aging better than this.

The @brennancenter.bsky.social and co-counsel filed a lawsuit today on behalf of civil rights and voting organizations challenging Trump’s exec order on elections. Trump is trying to restrict millions of people from voting by requiring “documentary proof of United States citizenship” to register.

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

Thank you to @msmagazine.com for publishing my essay on the indomitable Pauli Murray, the American hero you never learned about (and the federal government doesn’t want you to) msmagazine.com/2025/03/26/p...

Over the next 10 or 20 years, we’ll witness the greatest transfer of wealth in history—a changing of hands, by some estimates, of more than $80 trillion. And the majority will flow directly to women, writes @josiecox.bsky.social: www.thepersistent.com/what-is-grea...

Barzini’s, spectacularly shut down earlier this year for all kinds of health and safety reasons (rats, roaches, maggots…), doing its very best to win back the locals. @westsiderag.bsky.social

In a world in which wealth and opulence seem to beget political power, @josiecox.bsky.social longs “for a leader with unshowy discipline,” she writes. Days after the German elections, Cox can’t help but think of Angela Merkel. www.thepersistent.com/angela-merke...

Study (N=1,396) finds workers would forgo 25% of pay for an identical remote or hybrid job. Is a disgruntled in-office employee whose boss doesn’t trust them really more valuable than a happy employee who is trusted enough to work from home? @josiecox.bsky.social www.salon.com/2025/02/27/r...

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

"Meritocracies don’t work. They exacerbate inequality. They make the rich — who in this country are already ludicrously wealthy — richer, the poor poorer, and they squeeze the marginalized even further out of the picture," writes @josiecox.bsky.social www.salon.com/2025/01/30/h...

Three academics at the University of Southern California Annenberg found that across the top 100 movies that came out in 2024, more than half featured a story centered on a female-identified actor as a lead or co-lead, reports @josiecox.bsky.social: www.thepersistent.com/top-100-movi...

Fascinating #ONS research out of the UK on how an endometriosis diagnosis impacts women's earnings power: "Monthly pay initially dropped on average in the first three months post-diagnosis, then returned to pre-diagnosis levels from 4 to 12 months..."

They waited until their 30s to have kids. Now they've hit an unexpected snag.

I ask, cause I’m not sure…

Meritocracy is an illusory social ideal, which does not work and instead only exacerbates inequality. The problem is that our biases color perceptions of other people's merit. Example: when men evaluated on potential; women on performance. @josiecox.bsky.social www.salon.com/2025/01/30/h...

Elsewhere, I'm in awe of what Ellen Jovin is doing at her grammar table. My latest for @thepersistent.bsky.social on how conversations about language might just be able to help us connect in a world that feels broken. www.thepersistent.com/ellen-jovin-...

I wrote for @businessinsider.com about the parenting paradox so many of us know all too well: wanting to wait for financial and career stability to have kids...but also not knowing whether we're ever going to feel truly ready. www.businessinsider.com/millennial-p...

"It’s easy to look at the world and despair," write @francescadonner.bsky.social and @josiecox.bsky.social. But there are also causes for optimism: www.thepersistent.com/donald-trump...

"If people can no longer rely on federal mandates and laws to encourage the types of opportunities that benefit everyone, companies, executives and leaders will need to compensate," argues @josiecox.bsky.social: www.thepersistent.com/dei-meaning-...

Sunshine + frozen Jackie O Reservoir = Chicken soup for the soul.

It’s easy to look at the world and despair, write @josiecox.bsky.social and @francescadonner.bsky.social. But also: Diseases are being treated, solar power is booming and some animals are back from close to extinction. The full list of what's giving us hope: www.thepersistent.com/donald-trump...

I love this so much! At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions. This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.

"Relied on by moms for over 60 years." Are we really still reinforcing gender stereotypes about caregiving? Are we really still implying that a mother should be the default carer? Are we really still raising our children with messages like this? #johnsonandjohnson

It really is such masculine energy to blame things on a woman who no longer works at the company www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...

Two men will be honored on Monday. They couldn't be more different. Which way will you look? Asks @josiecox.bsky.social for @thepersistent.bsky.social. www.thepersistent.com/deciding-whi...

A White House official confirms that a cease-fire deal has been reached to end the fighting in Gaza and free the hostages.

Here's a theory. Maybe Zuck isn't actually a "masculine energy" advocate but just a spineless people-pleaser with no original thought. Maybe he just does that "ya, totally" thing of agreeing with whoever he's talking to because he so desperately needs approval. IDK what's worse, but it's a theory.

Almost as soon as the LA wildfires started, right-wing influencers had decided what was to blame for the blaze: DEI, of course. My latest for @thepersistent.bsky.social www.thepersistent.com/la-fires-dei...

11 days into the new year, how’s it going? Are we having fun yet? 🙄 Art by Hyesu Lee

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