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Ann Friedman

Ann Friedman is an editor and writer. Formerly the executive editor of GOOD, she’s now hard at work on a crowd-funded magazine called Tomorrow and is a politics columnist for NYmag.com. She curates the work of women journalists at LadyJournos!, makes hand-drawn pie charts for The Hairpin, and dispenses animated advice at the Columbia Journalism Review. In July 2012, CJR named her one of 20 women to watch.

Recent Articles

Behind Justice Ginsburg, a Strong Man.

Ann FriedmanJun 28, 2010

The obit headline reads: Martin D. Ginsburg dies at 78; tax law expert, Supreme Court spouse

It's so rare to read the obituary of a man who is identified, right up there in the headline, as a spouse -- the supportive partner of a woman who is much more well-known.

The foundation of their relationship, they both said, was mutual respect and equality -- and a willingness to share domestic duties.

Oil Spillover

A headline-dominating oil spill certainly should catalyze big changes in the way we power our country and regulate corporations.

Ann FriedmanJun 13, 2010
Three women protesting BP across from the White House. (Flickr/mvjantsen)

As news reports came in that BP's "top kill" effort had failed to stanch the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon spill, some environmentally minded pundits squinted and tried to make out a silver lining. Maybe this disaster, Thomas Friedman and others wrote hopefully, will be the push America needs to finally kick the oil habit.

Others were more pessimistic. "I'm curious to see how the public's mood shifts once it becomes clear that we are powerless in the face of this thing," wrote David Roberts at the environmental news site Grist. "What if there's just nothing we can do? That's not a feeling to which Americans are accustomed."

It's Not the End of Men

Despite lots of hand-wringing about the death of masculinity and the he-cession, the problem isn't men. It's traditional gender stereotypes.

Ann FriedmanJun 10, 2010
(Vintage Pitney-Bowes Ad)

With each step that American women have taken on the road to equality, detractors have fretted about what their advancement means for men -- particularly the "manly man." The lumber jack. The quarterback. The captain of industry. Clint Eastwood.

"Choices" and the Wage Gap.

Ann FriedmanMay 26, 2010

Jon Chait points to research showing that the lack of women willing (or able) to work the night shift is one factor contributing to the wage gap.

Outing Rapists on Facebook.

Ann FriedmanMay 07, 2010

After hearing about recent rapes on her campus, American University student Chloe
Rubenstein (a sexual assault survivor herself) posted the following message to Facebook:

"ATTENTION WOMEN," she wrote, before identifying two
American university students by name and calling them rapists. She went
on: "we should all be aware! Stay away at all costs. They are predators
and will show no remorse for anyone. If you have been effected by
either one of these sickos please feel free to talk to me. With enough
help we can take them down!"

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