Full Name
Jessica Bennett
Job Title
Gender Editor
Company
The New York Times
Speaker Bio
Jessica Bennett is Gender Editor of The New York Times, working to expand global coverage of women, gender and society. She is the author of “Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual (For a Sexist Workplace),” which was published by HarperCollins.
Bennett began her career at Newsweek, where she was a Senior Staff Writer, and was previously a Contributing Writer and Columnist for The Times’s Style section. She was the first journalist to profile Monica Lewinsky in a decade, and has covered campus life issues, female pot entrepreneurs, sexual harassment and the #MeToo movement, as well as written columns about digital language and her “resting bitch face.”
Bennett began her career at Newsweek, where she was a Senior Staff Writer, and was previously a Contributing Writer and Columnist for The Times’s Style section. She was the first journalist to profile Monica Lewinsky in a decade, and has covered campus life issues, female pot entrepreneurs, sexual harassment and the #MeToo movement, as well as written columns about digital language and her “resting bitch face.”
