Jill Abramson's 'Badass New Hobby'

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By Brian Ries2014-05-15 18:46:28 UTC

Former New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson has a "badass new hobby."

That's according to her daughter, Cornelia Griggs, who posted a photo to Instagram on Thursday that shows the ousted editor wearing boxing gloves and posing for the picture.

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Alongside the caption were two hashtags: "#girls" and "#pushy," a reference to Ken Auletta's source reported in the New Yorker:

“She confronted the top brass,” one close associate said, and this may have fed into the management’s narrative that she was “pushy,” a characterization that, for many, has an inescapably gendered aspect.

This isn't the first non-comment comment from Abramson's daughter.

Yesterday, as word broke that her mother had been sacked from her job, Griggs posted a collage of powerful women — Hillary Clinton, Sandra Day O'Connor and Sheryl Sandberg, champion of "leaning in" — and captioned it: "Nobody puts baby in a corner."

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Topics: Media, The New York Times, Social Media

Image: @cornelialg on Instagram