Gender Letter: Behind the Scenes With Christine Marinoni, Cynthia Nixon’s Wife

• Was she J. D. Salinger’s predator or prey? “Few reviews of any book I write fail to mention that when I was 18, I slept with a great writer, and, more significantly, that I later committed the unpardonable offense of telling that story,” Joyce Maynard writes. [The New York Times]

• Grab a racket. A new study found that tennis, badminton and soccer are all better for longevity than cycling, swimming, jogging or gym exercise. [The New York Times]

• “Systemic barriers in place.” A new study found that lawyers face endemic racial and gender bias in the workplace, and that a quarter of female lawyers had encountered sexual harassment. [The New York Times]

• The many roles of women in WWII. Sniper, pilot, death camp guard: A museum exhibit reveals how every person had an impact, for better or worse, at home and on the battlefield. [The New York Times Magazine]

• “Intentional invisibility.” A study shows that many women are aware of gender bias in the workplace and turn to invisibility to avoid backlash. [Harvard Business Review]

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College students, in their words

Last week, we relaunched The Edit, a New York Times newsletter for college students and recent graduates. As part of that revamp, 13 college contributors were selected — from 20,000 — as correspondents. They include Ebony Miranda, a graduate of Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, who questions in an essay whether the #MeToo movement also stands for those who fall outside the gender binary. Sign up for The Edit here.

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Overlooked but not forgotten

Since 1851, the vast majority of obituaries in The New York Times have been about men. This year, we began a series called Overlooked in which we are writing the obituaries for the women who never got them. This week, we remember Melitta Bentz, the inventor of the coffee filter.
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Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/nyregion/cynthia-nixon-wife-christine-marinoni.html?partner=rss&emc=rss