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May 2021
35m 45s

Out of Your Head and Onto the Page: Auth...

Rebecca Minkoff
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Growing up as the child of liberal parents in Seattle, Jessica Bennett may have spent her formative years steeped in a culture of feminism, but she didn’t feel the need to claim the title of feminist until she was faced with the tangible gender disparities that arose during her first job as a staff writer at Newsweek in New York. Spurred by inexcusable evide ... Show More
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