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Corinna Barnard

Corinna Barnard

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Corinna Barnard has been a journalist for more than 30 years. Her background spans finance, arms control, medicine, technology and parenting. In her most recent position, before joining Women's eNews in 2003, she worked for Dow Jones, Inc., where for several years she served as news editor for an international newswire covering emerging markets and later as a copy editor for The Wall Street Journal. Earlier in her career, Corinna was a radio commentator for "In The Public Interest," a national public-affairs radio program. She graduated from Yale University in 1980 with a degree in English literature.

2016 elections

Democratic Convention’s Female Force Turns on the Technicolor

By: Corinna Barnard (Editorial Director) | July 28, 2016

When we enlarge the cast of women, as has happened in Philadelphia, we also expand the canvas upon which we, as women and girls, see each other and ourselves. That gives each one of us the chance to develop depth and detail.

Crime & Law

Mass Killing in Florida Gay Nightclub Stirs Outpour of Grief and Horror

By: Corinna Barnard (Editorial Director) | June 12, 2016

In the middle of LGBT Pride Month, the killing of 50 people and injury of many others at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando is sending shock and outrage through the country and the world.

Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton Victory Taps the Varied Strains of Feminism

By: Corinna Barnard (Editorial Director) | June 8, 2016

Her win last night was a signal to many to put aside politics and celebrate what her historic candidacy might mean for little girls across the country and the world. But not everyone joined in.

Africa

Nigeria’s Lost Girls Part of Long-Term Conflict

By: Corinna Barnard (Editorial Director) | September 5, 2014

Nigeria’s gender-based abductions began in early 2013, a report finds, after the government imprisoned wives of Boko Haram members. Since then, the rate and scale of abductions has increased, with Christian women and girls the main target.

The Nation

White House Taps NYC Gusto for Workplace Fairness

By: Corinna Barnard (Editorial Director) | May 13, 2014

Regional run-up meetings like this are giving the White House a chance to energize support and a tap into a political vein that Obama isn’t finding inside Washington. Sen. Gillibrand is hoping to double the child care tax credit.

Boko Haram

Outrage Grows at Boko Haram Seizure of Schoolgirls

By: Corinna Barnard (Editorial Director) | May 6, 2014

As delegates arrive in Nigeria for the May 7-9 World Economic Forum on Africa they are likely to run into protesters in the capital city of Abuja. Nigeria’s president has accepted a U.S. offer to help secure the students’ release.

Child care workers

Child Care Workers Should Star in Higher Pay Push

By: Corinna Barnard (Editorial Director) | February 27, 2014

Parenting and pre-K politics are getting more co-ed but the stark reality is that the people who are helping out in the homes, day care centers and early-education classrooms are almost entirely female. Their taken-for-granted status is getting glaring.

The Nation

Ask Barbara Buono about N.J.’s ‘Christie Culture’

By: Corinna Barnard (Editorial Director) | January 13, 2014

The politician who was clobbered last fall by Gov. Chris Christie should be given a chance to put her sour grapes on the table and make some wine out of it. Her enemies, after all, paved an open road to the traffic snarl of “Bridgegate.”

Work

Rough Week for ‘Stox,’ Riots and Even My Junk Mail

By: Corinna Barnard (Editorial Director) | August 13, 2011

The riots in England, the S and P downgrade and the volatility of financial markets made it a shocking week. What didn’t help: The thought of Elizabeth Warren no longer in Washington fighting for the middle class.

Arts & Culture

Wal-Mart Ruling Puts Big Chill on Female Workers

By: Corinna Barnard (Editorial Director) | June 24, 2011

The High Court’s decision this week to disqualify about 1.5 million female Wal-Mart workers from bringing a class action gave mega corporations a big win over the workers. Three of the four dissenting justices were women.

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