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15 must-read stories on women and gender from 2019
The Lily’s top stories of the year
December 27, 2019
December 27, 2019
Following death of Emmy-winning reporter Cokie Roberts, female journalists mourn ‘complete, irreplaceable loss’
Roberts died on Tuesday at 75, according to ABC News
September 17, 2019
September 17, 2019
Forbes named 99 men and only one woman on its list of ‘most innovative leaders’
Readers had to scroll all the way down to No. 75 to find the first — and only — woman on the list
September 11, 2019
September 11, 2019
How New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey broke the Harvey Weinstein story that sparked #MeToo
‘She Said,’ a new book from Kantor and Twohey, is an instant classic of investigative journalism
Mark Halperin harassed women. So why should he be the one to cover 2020?
Is this the best man to offer cogent analysis on what it means to have a field of female candidates?
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, guest-edited British Vogue. See which women she put on the cover.
The magazine features a ‘candid conversation’ between Meghan and former first lady Michelle Obama
July 29, 2019
July 29, 2019
Lois Wille, Pulitzer Prize-winning pillar of Chicago journalism, dies at 87
Her reporting sparked policy changes that helped poor women across Illinois receive contraceptive information and services
July 29, 2019
July 29, 2019
How 6 female photojournalists saw the world — according to their photographs for Life magazine
See some of the photographs — taken by Margaret Bourke-White and five other women — that are featured in a New-York Historical Society exhibition
Her husband was killed in a mass shooting. Now she’s finishing his life’s work.
Sportswriter John McNamara never had the chance to finish his last book. Andrea Chamblee did it for him.
July 24, 2019
July 24, 2019
A female journalist wanted to profile a candidate for governor. He told her she had to be accompanied by a male colleague.
Citing ‘the optics’ of being alone with reporter Larrison Campbell, Mississippi state Rep. Robert Foster denied the request