The Electric Typewriter

Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.
6th Mar
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The Invisible Barriers to Women in Science by Meghan Sullivan - If we hire a smaller fraction of women as professors than there are women with PhDs we have basically thrown away talent 

What It Takes to Be a Trial Lawyer If You’re Not a Man by Lara Bazelon - In more than a decade of arguing cases in court, I’ve witnessed the stubborn cultural biases female attorneys must navigate to simply do their jobs 

On Being a Woman Writer by Lidia Yuknavitch - A very smart man tells me the thing I have written is too much about my self. Too much “I.” Could I please write something else? Differently? 

Maid to Order by Barbara Ehrenreich - The politics of other women’s work

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