Media

The Women of NOW has been featured on several podcasts:

Turk has also written widely on gender, politics and culture in modern America. Her recent pieces include:

  • “Labor Union Radicals Built the US Feminist Movement,” Jacobin, August 9, 2023

  • “Elusive Equality in the Equal Pay Act,” Gender Policy Report, June 7, 2023

  • “Milestone, Watershed: Liz Shuler’s Presidency of the AFL-CIO Comes at a Perilous Time for Gender Equity in Organized Labor,” Slate, August 24, 2021

  • “Volunteering and Generosity Are No Substitutes for Government Programs,” Washington Post, April 19, 2021

  • “Not Additive, But Transformative: Women and Gender in the Journal of American History,” and curator of Journal of American History Special Issue on Sex, Suffrage, and Solidarities, March 2020

  • “We Still Need the ERA: How Activists Can Learn From History to Win it This Time,” Public Seminar, January 29, 2020

  • “The Supreme Court Must Extend the Civil Rights Act’s Protections to LGBTQ Employees,” Washington Post, October 8, 2019

  • “Looking Beyond the Law: The Movement for LGBTQ Rights at Work,” Law and Political Economy Blog, October 7, 2019

  • “Remember Sears for its Sexism,” Slate, October 26, 2018

  • with Anne M. Blaschke, “The Kavanaugh Allegations Show What We Have—And Haven’t—Learned from Anita Hill,” Washington Post, September 18, 2018