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The Persistent @thepersistent.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

New research shows women are more likely to worry about the impact of new technologies.

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Why Women Don't Trust AI

It's less about safety, more about the ethical consequences.

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

“data from more than 200,000 schoolchildren collected btwn 2020 & 2022…tracks actual behavior [library borrowing records!!] rather than self-reported habits, provid[ing] a detailed & valuable picture of how reading patterns shift when classroom structure is removed.”🧪 @josiecox.bsky.social

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Annette Young @annettef24.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

📉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.

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The 51% - The gender pay gap is back: What’s behind America’s backslide on equal pay

In the US, the gender pay gap widens again for the second year in a row. Annette Young asks financial journalist, Josie Cox, why there is a U-turn after decades of the pay gap shrinking? Plus in Mexic...

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Josie Cox @josiecox.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

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...

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If Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce marry, they are likely to divorce. Here’s why

When women out-earn their husbands, marriages wobble — and the pop star and NFL player are no different to the rest of us, writes an expert on gender equality

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Josie Cox @josiecox.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

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.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

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.

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Heejung Chung @heejungchung.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

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...

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Millennial dads want to show up more at home. Will the office let them?

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

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Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 09/07/2025

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

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The millennial dad paradox

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

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 09/07/2025

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...

Jessica Calarco, a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin Madison whose research focuses on inequalities in family structures, says the disconnect between millennial dads' intention and reality can be attributed to two things: "A mismatch of socialization and a mismatch in structure."

As a society, we haven't socialized fathers to be caregivers, she says. "We've only allowed gender to bend one way. We've told young girls they can be anything they want to be. But we're not encouraging boys to embrace care identities. We're not giving them baby boys dolls and tea sets." As a result, "dads can feel underprepared or crowded out, like they don't belong in caring roles."

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

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...

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Ian Prasad Philbrick @ianprasad.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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...

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Women are poised to inherit trillions in the coming decades. Will it give them more power too? - The Boston Globe

The great wealth transfer will disproportionately benefit American women, but it won’t solve gender inequality on its own.

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Lorissa Rinehart @lorissa.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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.

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WOMEN MONEY POWER

Listen now | A Conversation with Author Josie Cox

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The Persistent @thepersistent.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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

Photo of woman holding branches next to photo of rings that say Naomi, Charlie, and Tessa.

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Josie Cox @josiecox.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

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

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Josie Cox @josiecox.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

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...

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The Forgotten Mother of the Contraceptive Pill

As reproductive rights continue to be under siege, we remember Katharine Dexter McCormick, a key figure in expanding access to birth control pills in the U.S. At one point in the late 1940s or early '...

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Josie Cox @josiecox.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

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...

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The Benefits of Paternity Leave Are Clear. So Why Aren’t Dads Taking It?

Many fathers and fathers-to-be say that even taking the parental leave they’re entitled to is seen by their boss as showing a lack of professional commitment.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 11/04/2025

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.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

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...

Graphic: As many as 69 million American women lack access to valid birth certificates

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The Persistent @thepersistent.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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’.

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Who Gets to be a Wartime Hero?

Overlooked stories of women are everywhere. Sometimes you just need to find them.

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The Persistent @thepersistent.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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...

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Multiple Lawsuits Filed Over Trump’s Attempt to Overhaul U.S. Elections

The complaints say Trump's executive order issued last week on voting rights is unconstitutional and could prevent millions of citizens from voting—in particular women and people of color.

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Josie Cox @josiecox.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

At least I'm aging better than this.

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Josie Cox @josiecox.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

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.

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Ellen Roche @ellroche.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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 $.

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The Persistent @thepersistent.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

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...

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Josie Cox @josiecox.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

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

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The Persistent @thepersistent.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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...

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My Reluctant Feminist Hero

In a world in which wealth and opulence seem to beget political power, I long for a leader with un-showy discipline. I can’t help thinking of Angela Merkel.

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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...

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CEOs ignoring math on return-to-office policies

Some workers are willing to give up pay in exchange for hybrid or fully-remote work.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/02/2025

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%. propub.li/43487Tj

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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

"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...

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How meritocracies make the rich richer

The best way to make America great again? Make America fair again.

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The Persistent @thepersistent.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

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...

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Coming to a Theatre Near You

Is Hollywood finally catching up with the real world? Maybe, sort of, yes.

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Josie Cox @josiecox.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

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..."

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Josie Cox @josiecox.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I ask, cause I’m not sure…

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

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...

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How meritocracies make the rich richer

The best way to make America great again? Make America fair again.

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Josie Cox @josiecox.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

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-...

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Rebel With a Clause

How Ellen Jovi uses semicolons to unite people.

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Josie Cox @josiecox.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

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...

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Millennials waited to have kids. Now they've hit an unexpected snag.

More people are waiting until their 30s to have kids. But that's when careers start taking off.

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The Persistent @thepersistent.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

"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...

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The Persistent @thepersistent.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

"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-...

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Josie Cox @josiecox.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

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

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The Persistent @thepersistent.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

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...

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A Handful of Reasons to Be Hopeful

Maybe the world isn't as bleak as it seems?

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/01/2025

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.

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Josie Cox @josiecox.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

"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

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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...

Mr. Zuckerberg was amenable. He signaled to Mr. Miller and his colleagues, including other senior Trump advisers, that he would do nothing to obstruct the Trump agenda, according to three people with knowledge of the meeting, who asked for anonymity to discuss a private conversation. Mr. Zuckerberg said he would instead focus solely on building tech products.

Mr. Zuckerberg blamed his former chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, for Facebook’s culture, according to one of the people with knowledge of the meeting. He said new guidelines and a series of layoffs amounted to a reset and that more changes were coming.

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The Persistent @thepersistent.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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...

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Deciding Which Way to Look

Two men will be honored on Monday. They couldn't be more different.

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

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

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Josie Cox @josiecox.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

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.

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