Women's Media Center produces original features on important issues by women experts and journalists. Our reports and commentaries provide progressive women's perspectives on both headline stories and timely events ignored or misrepresented in the mainstream media. National and international contributors -- widely diverse -- include members of the Women's Media Center Board of Directors, Progressive Women's Voices alumnae, SheSource participants, and many others, all using our platform to influence the global disucssion - and all paid honararia in respect for their writing. They offer our audience must-know information to move forward making change.
Now You See Them, Now You Don’t
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Israeli journalist Merav Michaeli explains why a Brooklyn newspaper recently removed Hillary Clinton from a famous photograph: another case of Photoshop in service to the patriarchy. More »
When Bad News is Good News—Notes of a Feminist News Junkie
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WMC Cofounder Robin Morgan on surrealism and sexual predators. More »
Kate Swift, Feminist Wordsmith, 1923 to 2011
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Award winning author and creator of WMC's "Hot Button Words" series Rosalie Maggio recalls the journalist and activist who alerted the modern women's movement to the dangers of sexist language. More »
Osama Is Dead! Will the Healing Begin?
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Iranian-American writer Noushin Darya Framke: it's time to move on from the "war on terror." More »
Rape in High Places
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Israeli journalist and women's rights activist Merav Michaeli analyzes an iniquitous sense of entitlement among the leaders of nations—and women's resistance. More »
Mother-Daughter Bonds—Realizing their Power
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Psychotherapist and author Joyce McFadden found some surprising results when she asked women to reflect on sexuality and raising daughters. More »
Russia’s Image of Woman—In a Country of Extremes
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The filmmaker of a documentary about three women in a Siberian prison and a yearly May Day beauty pageant writes about the changing roles and images of women in Russia. More »
Hollywood Gender Gap Persists in 100 Top-Grossing 2008 Films
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A new study from researchers at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism shows that females remain less visible and less valued than males in top feature films—both in front of and behind the camera. More »
The Birth Police—Rights of Pregnant Women and Their Families
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In the current wave of state legislature proposals, the threat to a woman's reproductive rights goes far beyond whether or not she can choose abortion, as the founder of Trust Women PAC explains. More »
The Power of “Ruined”
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Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize winning play enlightens audiences across the country. Ruined just finished a run in Berkeley, California, plays this month in Denver and opens April 22 in Washington, D.C. More »
