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The Harvard Business Review has just launched WOMEN AT WORK, a newsletter dedicated to women’s issues in the workplace. Check out the preview issue and register for free.

As the class of 2023 prepares to enter the workforce, are layoffs at marquee tech companies and a struggling economy making job-seekers reconsider their employment goals? The New York TImes takes a look.

“Transforming Spaces” is the latest series from the New York Times, featuring frontline women change-makers, often in unexpected places. Meet Margo Miller, a “proud Black mountain woman” and executive director of an NGO supporting grassroots groups working for social, economic, racial and environmental justice in Central Appalachia.

Both the late Christopher Hitchens and John Belushi were (in)famous for stating that women can’t be funny. Liza Donnelly, an award-winning cartoonist, talks to seven of her female and non-bianary colleagues about gender, feminism how this impacts on their work – and sorry guys. Women can be funny. Very funny.

Journalism students, especially women and people of color, are increasingly finding themselves in the cross hairs of harassment and threats. A recent Washington Post article examines how the current media ecosystem is impacting today’s student journalists.

Barbara Kruger: Feminist. Writer. Artist. Graphic Designer. Newark native. If you aren’t acquainted with her, it’s worth a trip to the Museum of Modern Art (now through January 2, 2023) to see the installation of her work “Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You.”