As Gloria Steinem turns 85, 85 celebrities, activists, and journalists have come together to celebrate the inspirational woman.
The Women’s Media Center gathered “life-long friends” of Steinem to share the “impact she has had” on them, from Jane Fonda to Joy Behar, who praises her for “always unapologetically [being] herself.”
According to a recent report by the Women’s Media Centre, of coverage by 28 American news outlets in late 2017, men received 63% of bylines and TV credits—one percentage point higher than their share the previous year.
Last fall, a study from the Women’s Media Center and BBC America found that female superhero characters can help girls and young women self-identify with positive descriptors like “strong,” “brave,” “confident” and “motivated.”
Nearly two-thirds of the study participants, girls aged 10 to 19, said that in movies and television, they don’t see enough “female role models,” “strong female characters” or “relatable female characters.”
A study by the Women’s Media Center found that, overall, the proportion of women of color in newsrooms remained stagnant or fell last year in comparison with previous years. The report said women of color accounted for 7.95 percent of traditional print newspaper journalism jobs, 6.2 percent of radio jobs and 12.6 percent of TV news jobs. Overall, women account for 32 percent of newsroom staffs nationwide.
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