HOW WOMEN
WILL SAVE THE WORLD
By Lori Sokol, PhD

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lori Sokol, PhD, currently serves as the executive director and editor-in-chief of Women’s eNews, a nonprofit news organization that reports on the most crucial issues impacting women and girls around the world. As an entrepreneur, scholar, journalist, and psychologist, Dr. Sokol’s career spans over thirty years of reporting, writing, researching, and publishing on such pertinent social issues as gender equality, the needs of working parents, environmental sustainability, and strides made by female professionals determined to smash the proverbial “glass ceiling.” As a doctoral candidate in Educational Psychology, Dr. Sokol’s research specifically focused on the media’s influence in crafting gender roles, further seeking to expose how stereotypes are created and maintained. She has published academic articles on psychology and the media, and served as an adjunct professor in the Psychology Departments of a number of colleges and universities.
Dr. Sokol has also served as a speaker at numerous global women’s conferences throughout the United States and Asia on topics related to gender equality and human rights. Her articles have been published in the Baltimore Sun, The Huffington Post, Ms. Magazine, and in Slate.com, and she has been profiled in a variety of major publications, most recently in The Wall Street Journal and on Forbes.com. She has also been interviewed on MSNBC, CNBC, WPIX, NY1 and Fox Five Live.
Her first book, Flex Primer for the New Future of Work, was published by Working Mother Media in 2011.
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FORBES MAGAZINE
How The Pandemic Is Negatively Impacting Women More Than Men, And What Has To Change
Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Today’s True Leadership”
Jul 13, 2020, 11:30am EDT
To learn more about how women have been negatively impacted by the pandemic in ways that men have not, I caught up with Lori Sokol, PhD, a veteran journalist and trained psychologist who currently serves as the Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief of Women's eNews, an award-winning, non-profit news organization covering the most crucial issues impacting women and girls throughout the world. Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, it has over 2.5 million readers.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
Lori Sokol on Defying Other People’s Limits
A self-made entrepreneur, journalist and activist discusses overcoming odds in WSJ’s ‘Secrets of Wealthy Women’ Podcast
July 26, 2019 9:25 am ET
When Lori Sokol was growing up in public-housing projects in Brooklyn, her parents wanted her to marry a millionaire so she wouldn’t have to work. They also discouraged her from pursuing an education.
Ms. Sokol, who is the executive director of Women’s eNews, a nonprofit digital news service that covers women’s issues, refused to listen.
She...
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