Women’s Media Center co-founder Gloria Steinem — journalist, author, activist, and feminist organizer — celebrates her 85th birthday today, March 25, 2019. The Women’s Media Center is commemorating this happy occasion by posting short birthday greetings from over 85 artists, journalists, activists, and many life-long friends from around the globe expressing what the women’s rights pioneer has meant to them and to the feminist movement.
Why: Media shapes us, informs our ideas, policies and politics. It tells us who we are, and what we can be.
What: WMC works toward media equality using interconnected strategies of research, original stories and articles, promotion of women experts and media training.
The 2019 Women's Media Awards will be at the Mandarin Oriental New York on Tuesday, October 22, 2019.
“The Status of Women in the U.S. Media 2019” shows that despite some gains, men still dominate in every part of news, entertainment and digital media. The report is comprised of 94 studies, including original research by the Women’s Media Center and aggregated research from academia, industry and professional groups, labor unions, media watchdogs, newsrooms and other sources.
The 2019 Oscar nominations were disappointing for women behind the camera, with no women nominated in Directing, Cinematography, Editing, Original Score, and Visual Effects, and only one woman nominated in Animated Feature film and in each of the two writing categories. Industry-wide efforts to improve gender parity has had some impact, but not as much as anticipated, according to a Women’s Media Center analysis.
“Our research shows that women, who are more than half of the population, write only a third of the stories. Media tells us our roles in society — it tells us who we are and what we can be. This new report shows us who matters and what is important to media — and clearly, as of right now, it is not women,” center president Julie Burton said in a statement.
A Women’s Media Center investigation of who provides coverage for 28 top news outlets shows that male journalists continue to report most news, especially for wires and TV prime-time evening broadcasts.
Four hundred guests gathered to celebrate women in media at the 2018 Women's Media Awards, held at the Capitale in New York City. Here are the pictures.
A year following revelations in The New York Times about decades of allegations against movie producer Harvey Weinstein, the #MeToo movement has led to a significant change in the way media covers stories about sexual assault and harassment, a new report from the Women’s Media Center shows.
The Women’s Media Awards honor champions for women in media. The extraordinary women we recognize set the standard for what media should look like when it gives voice to the diverse female half of the country.
SuperPowering Girls: Female Representation in the Sci/Fi Superhero Genre is the first in a series of reports that BBC America and the Women’s Media Center will release over the next few months with a goal of expanding both the diversity and representation of women and girls in front of and behind the camera.
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The Women’s Media Center press kit contains approved WMC images, logos and biographies for reporters, editors, producers and bookers, in addition to our press release database.
WMC research and reports are more than just statistics—they are evidence and tools for social change, and create benchmarks to highlight the status and progress of women in media.
WMC News and Features provide progressive women’s perspectives on both headline stories and timely events ignored or misrepresented in the mainstream media.
Pioneering intersectional teen feminism, WMC Fbomb provides socially conscious youth with a welcoming, progressive-minded community.
The report, the fifth annual edition of its kind, has found "areas of progress, regress and, sadly, outright pushback," Julie Burton, the president of the Women's Media Center, wrote in a foreword to the report.
WMC Women Under Siege examines how sexualized and other violence is being used to devastate women and tear apart communities around the world, in conflict and beyond.
“Reproductive freedom will almost surely be an issue in November’s presidential election,” Julie Burton said. “The outcomes of these ballot-box choices significantly impact not only public health — but also women’s health. Yet, our study shows that in articles about elections and reproduc-tive issues, men’s voices prevail.”
WMC Speech Project spotlights and documents online abuse and its effects on women’s rights, civic participation, and free speech.
WMC media training gives diverse women leaders the tools to be media-smart and media-savvy and helps expand the representation of women, as pundits and as sources, on all media platforms.
Women's Media Center Live with Robin Morgan is a nationally syndicated American radio show and podcast with an audience in 110 countries around the globe and on iTunes.
The number of articles on sexual assault has increased more than 30% between May 2017 and August 2018, according to a study of the content of headlines, bylines, and articles on 15,228 pieces of news conducted by the Women’s Media Center. When articles focused solely on the#MeToo movement are added, total coverage has increased 52%, according to the report.
WMC SheSource is an online database of women experts who we connect to journalists, bookers, and producers, thereby increasing the number of diverse women in our media.
On their own terms: a survivor-centered approach to sexual violence in conflict
The WMC Guide to Fair and Accurate Language
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