E.J. Graff

Areas of Expertise

Sex Discrimination; Sexual Harassment; Media Criticism; LGBT Issues

Email: ejgraff@brandeis.edu

Current Project

As Senior Researcher at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, E.J. Graff is heading the Gender and Justice Project, where she is investigating and reporting on a range of issues facing women and children.

Biography

E.J. Graff directs the Gender & Justice Project at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, where she investigates and reports on injustices facing women and children. Before joining the Institute, E.J. Graff collaborated on former Lt. Governor Evelyn Murphy’s book Getting Even: Why Women Still Don't Make As Much As Men--And What To Do So We Will, published by Simon & Schuster/Touchstone in October 2005. The book exposed the fact that the gender wage gap has remained steady for more than a decade, and that much of the gap is due to illegal discrimination.  Her first book, What Is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution, looked at more than 2,500 years of history of that central pillar of our social life. Her work is cited in legal journals, reprinted for use in courses, entered as courtroom exhibits, and quoted by government policymaking bodies.

E.J. Graff is a senior correspondent for The American Prospect and a contributor to TPMCafe.com. Her work has appeared in such publications as the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Columbia Journalism Review, Los Angeles Times, Ms., The Nation, The New Republic, and more than a dozen anthologies.  She has appeared in several documentaries; been interviewed by such media outlets as NPR, BBC, PBS, MTV, satellite radio, and cable news; and spoken or debated in public forums in the U.S. and abroad.  She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Schlesinger Library and a Liberal Arts Fellow at Harvard Law School.

Education

M.F.A., Warren Wilson College

B.A., Ohio University Honors Tutorial College

Representative Publications

Murphy, Evelyn F. with E.J. Graff.  Getting Even: Why Women Still Don’t Get Paid Like Men – And What To Do About It.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Graff, E.J. What is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004.

For recent articles, please visit the website of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism

Links

Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism

Getting Even: Why Women Don't Get Paid Like Men - And What to Do About it

What is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution