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.
In Chile, a Spiritual Space for Activism
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Women who formed the backbone of the antipoverty and human rights work of liberation theology in Latin America have organized for women's empowerment for decades. More »
Micro-lender Fonkoze to the Rescue in Haiti
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A micro-credit program and banking system for more than 200,000 women in Haiti has come to the rescue of the overall economy in the wake of the devastating earthquake. At a time when Haitian commercial banks remain closed, Fonkoze, the Haitian branch of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, mobilized over the weekend to get funds to its members in rural towns as well as Port-au-Prince. More »
Batgirl and Other Fair Pay Heroes
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While the Senate recently bungled its chance to advance paycheck fairness, gender pay equality has impressive champions ready to join the battle again, as AAUW's executive director Linda D. Hallman explains. More »
Arms Treaty Must Not Be Derailed
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Author and former covert CIA operations officer Valerie Plame Wilson, whose career protecting national security is depicted in the new movie "Fair Game," issues an urgent plea to the Senate to ratify the New START treaty without delay. More »
Documenting Late-Term Abortion
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Journalist Catherine Epstein talks to two documentarians about their film on late-term abortion and their motives for creating it. More »
A Good Virus: Social Media Storytelling
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National governments are not the only means for sparking change, as this year's Omega Institute Women and Power Conference emphasized. Author and media producer Kathleen Sweeney asked participants how activists can develop their power through social media. More »
How War Trounces Women's Rights
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In her new book "Unmaking War, Remaking Men," feminist sociologist Kathleen Barry argues that by demanding a violent and aggressive masculinity—literally making men expendable—war precludes equality for women. More »
Ready for Right Now: Lessons from a Women’s College
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Being educated among women, WMC intern Anna Ziering writes, shaped her understanding of leadership. More »
Anger. Apathy. Frustration. Disgust.
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WMC Progressive Women's Voices alumna and commentator Linda Lowen urges feminists to shake off any discouragement and take to their social media sites to help turn out the vote for the midterms tomorrow. More »
Why Mama Grizzlies Vote Pro-Choice
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WMC Co-founder Gloria Steinem writes about the most crucial economic issues for women on Election Day–and the real Mama Grizzlies. More »
