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“If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it.” —Sojourner Truth, former slave, abolitionist, Methodist minister, and early U.S. women’s rights leader
International Women’s Day began 99 years ago. With so much progress accomplished since 1911, yet so much more remaining to be done, [...]
Oscars alert: Women’s Media Center is live-blogging and Tweeting during the Oscars tonight! Stay tuned for our take on the year’s biggest night in entertainment.
Tonight’s Oscars are unique, not just because of the double-stuffed Best Picture nominees, or the outlandish outfits that sometimes make more news than actor wearing them, but because a woman – “The [...]
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 neglected [...]
I went to a panel on Tuesday afternoon dedicated to the increasingly widespread and meticulous Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) which has, since 1995, produced volunteer-driven international research on women’s representation in news media. The project is gigantic, and they only do it every five years, so it was a real honor to be present – [...]
By Melissa Silverstein
Women & Hollywood’s blogger here assesses the implications of a historic win for Kathryn Bigelow.
In less than one week, March 7 to be exact, the Hollywood awards season will be over, and chances are very good that for the first time a woman—Kathryn Bigelow—will have won the best director Oscar for [...]
February 22, 2010 – 1:18 pm
“Power is never skin deep: Never let charm replace substance. The insistence that women have to be agreeable and likeable sometimes leads to the assumption that these superficial attributes are all you need.”
- Carol Jenkins, Founding President of the Women’s Media Center
Insights like this, and other voices from female leaders across the nation and the [...]
February 12, 2010 – 4:36 pm
Guest post by Audrey Bilger
“That’s no lady, that’s my wife,” the “old ball-and-chain,” the “battle-axe”—such expressions seem to belong to an older time, when a comedian could get a laugh by saying, “Take my wife…please!” If you look up “wife” in the Urban Dictionary, though, you’ll find that negative associations persist. The first definition delivers [...]
February 9, 2010 – 10:44 am
By Marianne Schnall
Eleven years after the launch of V-Day, Eve Ensler sets out to do for girls what she did for women—uncover the truth of their experiences and create a global dialogue. Her new book is being published February 9.
In 1996, playwright and author Eve Ensler sparked a worldwide phenomenon with the debut of [...]
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 – [...]
February 8, 2010 – 4:44 pm
Following the landslide victory of Costa Rica’s first female president, women throughout the Central American country are ecstatic. Wrapped in a National Liberation Party flag, Costa Rican Laura Urena exclaimed at the victory celebration, “I couldn’t be happier…It will give new opportunities to women all over the country.”
While her gender may make her a symbol [...]
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