It was the first public event of its kind and resulted in a win for women everywhere. It speaks to the plights of dedicated professional women in the first ten years of their careers. Every woman needs this book and they needed it yesterday. The book is an accessible, researchbased starting place that provides shared language and shared resources for identifying and responding to subtle sexism.
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Fight club is a layered, multifaceted storyline, leading to many different readings and interpretations. It begins when, after university, roberta gets an entrylevel job. Bennett uses the establishment of her own feminist fight club essentially a support group of earlycareer women as a. Part manual, part manifesto, feminist fight club is a hilarious yet.
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