Josie Cox
@josiecox.bsky.social
Author, journalist and broadcaster in New York.
WOMEN MONEY POWER (Abrams, 2024) 📚
Associate Instructor at Columbia SPS 👩🎓
Founding editor of The Persistent ✍️
I sound like a Brit but it’s complicated…🇬🇧🇨🇭
josiecox.com
WOMEN MONEY POWER (Abrams, 2024) 📚
Associate Instructor at Columbia SPS 👩🎓
Founding editor of The Persistent ✍️
I sound like a Brit but it’s complicated…🇬🇧🇨🇭
josiecox.com
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Josie Cox
@josiecox.bsky.social
· Apr 25
The Benefits of Paternity Leave Are Clear. So Why Aren’t Dads Taking It?
Many fathers and fathers-to-be say that even taking the parental leave they’re entitled to is seen by their boss as showing a lack of professional commitment.
www.bloomberg.com
For @bloomberg.com I explored the "paternity leave paradox." New dads aren't taking parental leave even though *loads* of data and research show that paternity leave is good for baby, good for dad, good for mom, good for employers and for good for society at large. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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📉After decades of progress, new data shows the #genderpaygap has done a U-turn and is now widening.
💰In 2024, women working full-time earned a median salary only 81% of their male counterparts; sliding backwards for the second year in a row. I spoke to @josiecox.bsky.social for The51% as to why.
💰In 2024, women working full-time earned a median salary only 81% of their male counterparts; sliding backwards for the second year in a row. I spoke to @josiecox.bsky.social for The51% as to why.
The 51% - The gender pay gap is back: What’s behind America’s backslide on equal pay
In the US, the gender pay gap widens again for the second year in a row. Annette Young asks financial journalist, Josie Cox, why there is a U-turn after decades of the pay gap shrinking? Plus in Mexic...
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October 16, 2025 at 3:06 AM
📉After decades of progress, new data shows the #genderpaygap has done a U-turn and is now widening.
💰In 2024, women working full-time earned a median salary only 81% of their male counterparts; sliding backwards for the second year in a row. I spoke to @josiecox.bsky.social for The51% as to why.
💰In 2024, women working full-time earned a median salary only 81% of their male counterparts; sliding backwards for the second year in a row. I spoke to @josiecox.bsky.social for The51% as to why.
Last week I wrote for @thetimes.com about Taylor and Travis and marriage and divorce and money and power and ego…and how all those things are connected. Dare you to read past the headline before trolling me ✌️
www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
If Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce marry, they are likely to divorce. Here’s why
When women out-earn their husbands, marriages wobble — and the pop star and NFL player are no different to the rest of us, writes an expert on gender equality
www.thetimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Last week I wrote for @thetimes.com about Taylor and Travis and marriage and divorce and money and power and ego…and how all those things are connected. Dare you to read past the headline before trolling me ✌️
www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
Thoughts & prayers to all parents this week who have, since June, coordinated about 6 thousands weeks of camp and paid about 9 million dollars for extra childcare. In many places camps have all ended, school don’t start until post-labor day, and college kid babysitters have gone back already.
August 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Thoughts & prayers to all parents this week who have, since June, coordinated about 6 thousands weeks of camp and paid about 9 million dollars for extra childcare. In many places camps have all ended, school don’t start until post-labor day, and college kid babysitters have gone back already.
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Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
August 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
Thank you for sharing @pegcheng.bsky.social!
I didn’t know about the amazing Margaret Fuller until I read her story in @thepersistent.bsky.social by @josiecox.bsky.social. She kicked ass & inspired feminists all over the world.
www.thepersistent.com/email/71a40e...
www.thepersistent.com/email/71a40e...
The Life and Untimely Death of One of America’s First Feminists
There’s no way of knowing what Margaret Fuller might have achieved if she hadn’t died in the summer of 1850.
www.thepersistent.com
July 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Thank you for sharing @pegcheng.bsky.social!
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My most recent interview with @josiecox.bsky.social on why workplaces are failing dads which have negative impact on the unequal division of work at home but also in the labour market, and larger social consequences. www.businessinsider.com/millennial-d...
Millennial dads want to show up more at home. Will the office let them?
Millennial dads spend much more time with their kids than their boomer parents, but they're still struggling to break the breadwinner stereotype.
www.businessinsider.com
July 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
My most recent interview with @josiecox.bsky.social on why workplaces are failing dads which have negative impact on the unequal division of work at home but also in the labour market, and larger social consequences. www.businessinsider.com/millennial-d...
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Millennial dads spend much more time with their kids than their boomer parents, but they're still struggling to break the breadwinner stereotype.
The millennial dad paradox
Millennial dads spend much more time with their kids than their boomer parents, but they're still struggling to break the breadwinner stereotype.
www.businessinsider.com
July 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Millennial dads spend much more time with their kids than their boomer parents, but they're still struggling to break the breadwinner stereotype.
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Millennial dads want to be equal partners at home—but outdated norms and policy structures stand in the way.
As @jessicacalarco.com notes, we haven’t prepared boys to be caregivers or built systems that support care as a shared responsibility. www.businessinsider.com/millennial-d...
As @jessicacalarco.com notes, we haven’t prepared boys to be caregivers or built systems that support care as a shared responsibility. www.businessinsider.com/millennial-d...
July 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Millennial dads want to be equal partners at home—but outdated norms and policy structures stand in the way.
As @jessicacalarco.com notes, we haven’t prepared boys to be caregivers or built systems that support care as a shared responsibility. www.businessinsider.com/millennial-d...
As @jessicacalarco.com notes, we haven’t prepared boys to be caregivers or built systems that support care as a shared responsibility. www.businessinsider.com/millennial-d...
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The Backlash is out, with stuff on the authority gap, invisible labour, 3 years since Dobbs, trans rights and the Supreme Court, and Bonnie Blue, and links to writing by @lubakas.bsky.social, @josiecox.bsky.social & @pperry.bsky.social
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June 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The Backlash is out, with stuff on the authority gap, invisible labour, 3 years since Dobbs, trans rights and the Supreme Court, and Bonnie Blue, and links to writing by @lubakas.bsky.social, @josiecox.bsky.social & @pperry.bsky.social
thebacklash.substack.com/p/the-author...
thebacklash.substack.com/p/the-author...
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American women are poised to inherit trillions in wealth in the coming decades. Today’s @bostonglobe.com Starting Point explores whether it will also give them more power, with insights from @josiecox.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/12/n...
Women are poised to inherit trillions in the coming decades. Will it give them more power too? - The Boston Globe
The great wealth transfer will disproportionately benefit American women, but it won’t solve gender inequality on its own.
www.bostonglobe.com
June 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
American women are poised to inherit trillions in wealth in the coming decades. Today’s @bostonglobe.com Starting Point explores whether it will also give them more power, with insights from @josiecox.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/12/n...
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This week on The Female Body Politic, I’m joined by financial journalist, broadcaster, and author of WOMEN MONEY POWER, @josiecox.bsky.social
Tune in as we explore the roots and impact of gender-based financial inequality through the lens of her groundbreaking book.
Tune in as we explore the roots and impact of gender-based financial inequality through the lens of her groundbreaking book.
WOMEN MONEY POWER
Listen now | A Conversation with Author Josie Cox
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May 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This week on The Female Body Politic, I’m joined by financial journalist, broadcaster, and author of WOMEN MONEY POWER, @josiecox.bsky.social
Tune in as we explore the roots and impact of gender-based financial inequality through the lens of her groundbreaking book.
Tune in as we explore the roots and impact of gender-based financial inequality through the lens of her groundbreaking book.
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Photographer Nancy Borowick spent years documenting the effects of grief. Now, she turns her lens to stillbirth and its effect on the women who lose their babies.
Read her Q&A with @josiecox.bsky.social and see more of her extraordinary photos here. buff.ly/4FXLbdt
Read her Q&A with @josiecox.bsky.social and see more of her extraordinary photos here. buff.ly/4FXLbdt
May 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Photographer Nancy Borowick spent years documenting the effects of grief. Now, she turns her lens to stillbirth and its effect on the women who lose their babies.
Read her Q&A with @josiecox.bsky.social and see more of her extraordinary photos here. buff.ly/4FXLbdt
Read her Q&A with @josiecox.bsky.social and see more of her extraordinary photos here. buff.ly/4FXLbdt
The only Eurovision live blog anyone needs is my family WhatsApp group.
May 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The only Eurovision live blog anyone needs is my family WhatsApp group.
My latest for @msmagazine.com on Katharine Dexter McCormick, who used her fortune and fierce determination to quietly bankroll one of the most revolutionary inventions in women’s history: the birth control pill. msmagazine.com/2025/05/08/k...
The Forgotten Mother of the Contraceptive Pill
As reproductive rights continue to be under siege, we remember Katharine Dexter McCormick, a key figure in expanding access to birth control pills in the U.S. At one point in the late 1940s or early '...
msmagazine.com
May 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
My latest for @msmagazine.com on Katharine Dexter McCormick, who used her fortune and fierce determination to quietly bankroll one of the most revolutionary inventions in women’s history: the birth control pill. msmagazine.com/2025/05/08/k...
For @bloomberg.com I explored the "paternity leave paradox." New dads aren't taking parental leave even though *loads* of data and research show that paternity leave is good for baby, good for dad, good for mom, good for employers and for good for society at large. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The Benefits of Paternity Leave Are Clear. So Why Aren’t Dads Taking It?
Many fathers and fathers-to-be say that even taking the parental leave they’re entitled to is seen by their boss as showing a lack of professional commitment.
www.bloomberg.com
April 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
For @bloomberg.com I explored the "paternity leave paradox." New dads aren't taking parental leave even though *loads* of data and research show that paternity leave is good for baby, good for dad, good for mom, good for employers and for good for society at large. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Our cover this week.
April 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Our cover this week.
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BREAKING: An immigration court determined our client Mahmoud Khalil to be removable from the U.S. based solely on his political speech.
The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.
The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.
April 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
BREAKING: An immigration court determined our client Mahmoud Khalil to be removable from the U.S. based solely on his political speech.
The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.
The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.
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Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
April 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
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The stories about World War II that shine a light on women rarely mention women of color. Read our Q&A from @josiecox.bsky.social with the actor Ebony Obsidian who starred in Tyler Perry’s 2024 film ‘The Six Triple Eight’.
Who Gets to be a Wartime Hero?
Overlooked stories of women are everywhere. Sometimes you just need to find them.
www.thepersistent.com
April 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The stories about World War II that shine a light on women rarely mention women of color. Read our Q&A from @josiecox.bsky.social with the actor Ebony Obsidian who starred in Tyler Perry’s 2024 film ‘The Six Triple Eight’.
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Trump’s executive order on elections may prevent millions from being able to vote, including married people, those who’ve transitioned genders, and people born during segregation, reports @josiecox.bsky.social: www.thepersistent.com/voting-right...
Multiple Lawsuits Filed Over Trump’s Attempt to Overhaul U.S. Elections
The complaints say Trump's executive order issued last week on voting rights is unconstitutional and could prevent millions of citizens from voting—in particular women and people of color.
www.thepersistent.com
April 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Trump’s executive order on elections may prevent millions from being able to vote, including married people, those who’ve transitioned genders, and people born during segregation, reports @josiecox.bsky.social: www.thepersistent.com/voting-right...
At least I'm aging better than this.
April 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
At least I'm aging better than this.
The @brennancenter.bsky.social and co-counsel filed a lawsuit today on behalf of civil rights and voting organizations challenging Trump’s exec order on elections.
Trump is trying to restrict millions of people from voting by requiring “documentary proof of United States citizenship” to register.
Trump is trying to restrict millions of people from voting by requiring “documentary proof of United States citizenship” to register.
April 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The @brennancenter.bsky.social and co-counsel filed a lawsuit today on behalf of civil rights and voting organizations challenging Trump’s exec order on elections.
Trump is trying to restrict millions of people from voting by requiring “documentary proof of United States citizenship” to register.
Trump is trying to restrict millions of people from voting by requiring “documentary proof of United States citizenship” to register.
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Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
March 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
Thank you to @msmagazine.com for publishing my essay on the indomitable Pauli Murray, the American hero you never learned about (and the federal government doesn’t want you to) msmagazine.com/2025/03/26/p...
Pauli Murray: The American Hero You Never Learned About (And the Federal Government Doesn’t Want You To)
A few years ago, I went searching for Pauli Murray. By that point, the poet, civil rights activist and pioneering legal scholar had been dead for 35 years. But in researching her life for the book I w...
msmagazine.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Thank you to @msmagazine.com for publishing my essay on the indomitable Pauli Murray, the American hero you never learned about (and the federal government doesn’t want you to) msmagazine.com/2025/03/26/p...
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Over the next 10 or 20 years, we’ll witness the greatest transfer of wealth in history—a changing of hands, by some estimates, of more than $80 trillion. And the majority will flow directly to women, writes @josiecox.bsky.social: www.thepersistent.com/what-is-grea...
March 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Over the next 10 or 20 years, we’ll witness the greatest transfer of wealth in history—a changing of hands, by some estimates, of more than $80 trillion. And the majority will flow directly to women, writes @josiecox.bsky.social: www.thepersistent.com/what-is-grea...