Corinne Low

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Economist at Wharton. Author of Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives & Getting the Most Out of Yours, out Sept 23 from Flatiron. Co-founder of @openheartsnyc.bsky.social. Femonomics Newsletter: corinnelow.substack.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 15, 2026 CONTACT: Alexandra MacLean 1-802-272-0443 The Ben & Jerry's Foundation Announces Suspension of Operations Following Funding Cutoff by Unilever/Magnum After 40 years of supporting grassroots social change, the Foundation will be forced to suspend operations unless it obtains a favorable ruling in its legal challenge South Burlington, VT, - The Ben & Jerry's Foundation today announced it will suspend operations as of December 31, 2026, unless it obtains a favorable ruling in its legal challenge to its loss of funding. The Foundation is actively pursuing that challenge which is expected to extend into next year and is fully committed to seeing it through. This year-end suspension of operations follows the April 2025 decision by Unilever’s spinoff, The Magnum Ice Cream Company (TMICC), to cut the Foundation's funding and its more recent mandate for the Foundation to vacate its corporate office by today, July 15, 2026. Without these essential resources, the Foundation cannot continue its work. "After forty years of investing in grassroots organizations working to make the world a more just and better place, TMICC is causing us to shut down at exactly the moment that work is most urgently needed,” said Liz Bankowski, President of the Board of Trustees. “While we’ve lost funding and been removed from our office, we stand firm in the belief that the law and the facts are on our side.” Since its founding, the Ben & Jerry's Foundation has been unwavering in its mission: to support progressive social change at the grassroots level and to engage Ben & Jerry's employees in that work. Last October, the Foundation celebrated its 40th anniversary, a milestone honoring thousands of small grassroots organizations whose work to advance justice, human dignity, and environmental protection was bolstered by the Foundation's early and often catalytic support. Beyond the national grants program, the withdrawal of funds also affects roughly $600,000 contr…
We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false. That the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient. That trade rules were enforced asymmetrically. And that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim. This fiction was useful, and American hegemony, in particular, helped provide public goods: open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes. So, we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals. And largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works. Let me be direct: we are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition. Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy, and geopolitics laid bare the risks of extreme global integration.
"A timeline of US strikes on boats that have killed 107" (CNN)
A baby in a green onesie and red hat meant to look like the very hungry caterpillar with cut out book covers attached.
Adams and Cuomo in joint appearance say Mamdani isn't a real Democrat (ny times headline).
Picture of me when my son was a baby, in an NYC apartment we couldn't afford, commuting to my job in Philly!
A graph depicting a mountain of childcare and housework time over women's lifecycle, peaking at 35. Income increases and peaks at age 50, the end of the graph.
Graph showing women's time on market work increasing from 20 to 30 hours a week from 1975 to 2015 while time on housework decreases from 25 to 15. Men's hours stays the same. Time with kids increases from 6 to 12 over the same period.
October 14th Chestnut Hill MMLaFleur 6-8pm, Corinne Low in conversation with Lise Vesterlund regarding book, Having It All
Event flyer for having it all, Corinne Low and Jessica Calarco, September 18th at 7 central.
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/876097416 https://www.jstor.org/stable/44113425
Purple and yellow graphs showing women's time use and earning over the life cycle. Click link for text describing.
Graphic showing orange book cover: "Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours," Corinne Low, PhD. On blue background saying "Barnes and Noble: Preorder offer for a limited Time! 25% off. From July 8-11. Flatiron Books." Use code PREORDER25 at checkout. Premium Members get an extra 10% off.
Corinne holding a baby and a laptop and reading my book, Having It All.
Corinne in a chair with laptop and baby, wife giving me water, 8 year old in soccer jersey reading my book beside me.
4 books arranged in a grid--a green journal with a gold geometric pattern, Kazoo Ishuiguro "The Buried Giant," "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo," and "Cat's Cradle" by Vonnegut.
Tired momma holding sleeping one-week-old baby with orange, purple, and green book entitled "Having It All."
Orange, pink, and yellow book cover with white text, showing various objects representing women's lives, from a house to a kid's bike to an airplane, with some objects representing the stress of it all: dinner on fire, a broken high heel, a crying baby, a spilled coffee cup, and overflowing inbox. Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours. Corinne Low, PhD. On Sale 9.23.25.
Emily's book on a cake!
Tweet from US Senator Bill Cassidy, MD: PEPFAR is the epitome of soft power. It is a Republican initiative, it is pro-life, pro-America and the most popular U.S. program in Africa. There’s even a waiver acknowledging this, yet I’m told that drugs are still being withheld at clinics in Africa. This must be reversed immediately!! With attached letter to the state department.
Text of letter available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SMkdyaeJWOHN4y-DC5RPY1ZGk9B_SIIk5Tv_Yz5zQRw/edit?tab=t.0
Cute kid with a red and black striped cast.
Image shows a chart of women's time and income over the lifecycle. The y axis for minutes per day says 0, 80, 60, 240. The error is marked out in pen.
In this paper we establish a causal connection between two of the most salient social developments in the United States over the past decades: the opioid epidemic and the rise in partisanship and polarization. Drawing on unsealed records from litigation against Purdue Pharma, we uncover rich geographic variation in the marketing of prescription opioids that serves as a quasi-exogenous source of exposure to the epidemic. We use this variation to document significant increases in drug-related mortality and greater reliance on public transfer programs. This induced economic hardship led to substantial changes in the political landscape of those communities most affected by the opioid epidemic. We estimate that from the mid-2000s to 2020, exposure to the opioid epidemic continuously increased the Republican vote share in House, presidential, and gubernatorial elections. By the 2020 House elections, a one-standard-deviation increase in our measure of exposure led to a 4.6 percentage point increase in the Republican vote share. This higher vote share in the House translated into Republicans winning additional seats from 2012 until 2020.
A Black woman sits on a playground bench holding a white toddler. She shows an image of a young Black man, presumably her son, in a graduation gown to a brown-skinned woman standing next to her, holding a pink scooter, apparently caring for the helmeted red-headed girl, also white, running toward the playground.