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Celinda Lake: A Woman Making History

March 17, 2010 – 4:10 pm

30 Women Making History
In recognition of the 30th anniversary of Women’s History Month, Women’s Media Center is profiling 30 extraordinary women making history. Our goal is to raise $10,000 to support WMC Exclusives — every dollar raised will go directly toward hiring women writers to comment on major news stories and report topics often [...]

All the Democrats Need Is…Testosterone?

March 10, 2010 – 2:20 pm

Amidst a conversation about President Obama’s attempt to pass health care reform on this morning’s episode of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” commentator Donny Deutsch offered insight about why the process has taken so long: hormones.

“Say what you want about George Bush,” he went on, “There was testosterone, and that exudes everything you do. You could use [...]

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: A Woman Making History

March 8, 2010 – 4:48 pm

30 Women Making HistoryIn recognition of the 30th anniversary of Women’s History Month, Women’s Media Center is profiling 30 extraordinary women making history.  Our goal is to raise $10,000 to support WMC Exclusives — every dollar raised will go directly toward hiring women writers to comment on major news stories and report topics often neglected [...]

30 Women Making History

March 2, 2010 – 5:53 pm

Happy Women’s History Month! The National Women’s History Project has declared this year’s theme “Writing Women Back into History.” Ever wonder how much is missing from our collective past because women’s contributions have been given so little real estate in our history books? We want to make sure future histories paint the whole picture. That’s [...]

NCAA Rejects Focus on the Family Ad

February 25, 2010 – 6:38 pm

This week, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) – the major governing body of college sports – yanked a Focus on the Family banner ad from its website amid concern that the group’s agenda conflicts with the NCAA’s policy of inclusion. As the LA Times reports, the NCAA made the decision after some of its [...]

Bigelow’s Success: Still A Rare Thing for Women in Film

February 22, 2010 – 5:39 pm

Last week, The Wrap highlighted an annual report by Martha Lauzen – backed by jaw-dropping statistics – of how far women have to go in film, particularly in the field of directing. So although “The Hurt Locker” director Kathryn Bigelow – doubly armed with the top Director’s Guild Award and, as of Sunday night, the [...]

Are You The Next Rachel Maddow?

February 10, 2010 – 1:46 pm

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Super Bowl Sexism, by the Numbers

February 8, 2010 – 6:25 pm

Featured on the Huffington Post
By Jehmu Greene and Shelby Knox
Though the New Orleans Saints’ decisive victory left little room for Monday morning quarterbacking, the same cannot be said about the Super Bowl ads. CBS and its advertisers served up enough offensive fare to give everyone with an opinion an opportunity to take a swing – [...]

The Truth About C-hoice, B-ias, and the S-uper Bowl

February 2, 2010 – 2:24 pm

Featured on The Huffington Post
Super Bowl advertising has always been a showcase of overt sexism. This year the biased barrage also includes CBS’s and the NFL’s decision to air a seemingly subtle ad highlighting college football star Tim Tebow’s story, sponsored by Focus on the Family, which aggressively works to strip women of medical choices. [...]

FOTF and Tebow Generate Most Negative Conversations in Social Media

February 2, 2010 – 9:51 am

A week into the WMC’s campaign demanding that CBS scrap its anti-choice Super Bowl ad from Focus on the Family featuring college quarterback Tim Tebow, the online community is listening and responding – and it sounds like they’re as enraged as we are. The social media guide Mashable reported yesterday that, after reviewing over 50,000 [...]