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.
Images of Femicide Displayed to Prompt International Action
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A UN exhibit and seminar in Vienna marks a day devoted to ending violence against women. Alice Driver, whose photographs are included among the images, explains. More »
Women’s Expertize Promoted on Both Sides of the Atlantic
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A British journalist has launched The Women’s Room, which, like several projects in the U.S., proves that the pundit world needn’t be all male. More »
WMC Award Winners Assess Media Progress
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Last week's awards ceremony in New York City celebrated women making a difference in the media. Marianne Schnall asked award winners how they achieved personal success and what it would take to improve women's overall status. More »
Behind the Headlines—Sharing the Spotlight with David Petraeus
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The judgment of the media falls unevenly on the primary players in the soap opera that has engulfed the nation, as a WMC co-founder explains in this commentary broadcast earlier today on Women's Media Center Live with Robin Morgan. More »
Of Fantasy Sluts and Real-Life Survivors
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In fighting sexual violence, says the author, school administrators need to be proactive and help the students themselves change the cultural environment. More »
Girls Impact the World Film Festival—A Forum for Social Change
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A four-women collaboration hopes to harness the creativity of young women around the world, empowering them to address concerns central to their lives. More »
2012 Elections: Women Make Their Mark
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Women claim the last word in the "war on women" election this year, with 55 percent backing Barack Obama and many progressive women winning House and Senate seats. More »
Default Assumptions—The Science Behind the Bias
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Unless we actively resist, unconscious bias can influence important decisions—especially those made in the voting booth, as science writer KC Cole explains. More »
Letters from Ground Zero IV
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Robin Morgan asks us to avert the "far bigger storm than Sandy looming" by going to the polls Tuesday—in this commentary delivered today on her radio talk-show, "Women's Media Center Live." More »
Election Coverage Falls Short on “Women’s Issues”
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The mainstream media misses the complexity of women’s lives in representing what’s important to women voters. The author (left) calls for a far more nuanced public conversation. More »
