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Girls Investigate: From Face to Facebook

March 18, 2010 – 9:14 am

 
 
Girls Investigate: Social Media’s Merits & Minuses
By Nadia Tareen
 
Imagine – the typical teenage girl of 2010. Her fingers are tapping away on the keyboard of her cell phone, her eyes are feverishly glued to the screen. Sure, stereotypes are unreliable and sweeping, but in this case, I can attest that it is somewhat valid. My [...]

By Nadia Tareen | Also posted in Feminism, Girls Investigate: Our Views On Media, WMC Exclusives, WMC Exclusives Articles, Young Women & Feminism | Comments (0)

Television Industry Tough on Working Moms, UK Study Finds

March 16, 2010 – 4:32 pm

Come to find out, it’s hard being a working mom in the television industry, a recent UK survey reveals. The Guardian reports that 81% of the 179 television workers surveyed advised that women establish themselves in the industry before taking a career break to have children, and 55% said it was difficult to get back [...]

By Catherine Epstein | Also posted in Parenting | Comments (0)

The Female Factor: Women’s Influence Worldwide

March 15, 2010 – 10:51 am

Women of the world, unite: The International Herald Tribune has launched a year-long series called The Female Factor, a project examining the most recent shifts in women’s power, prominence and impact on societies around the world. The series aims to take readers on surprising journeys where women’s worlds intersect, whether they are in the western [...]

By Stephanie Wolf | Also posted in Economy, Feminism, International | Comments (0)

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 [...]

By Jehmu Greene | Also posted in Politics | Comments (0)

Tomorrow’s Journalism

March 8, 2010 – 9:45 am

By Mary Kay Blakely
As the world recognizes International Women’s Day, essayist Mary Kay Blakely assesses the contribution of women’s media, not the least of which may well be charting a path to a healthy journalism that serves the public good.
Everyone I know is alarmed by the disappearance of city newspapers and the retreat [...]

By Mary Kay Blakely | Also posted in WMC Exclusives, WMC Exclusives Articles | Comments (2)

O’Reilly Factor: Women’s Media Center Shout-Out to NCAA

March 4, 2010 – 7:42 pm

Last week, the NCAA — the major governing body of college sports — yanked a Focus on the Family banner ad from its website due to the group’s homophobic agenda, which conflicts with the NCAA’s policy of inclusion. WMC President Jehmu Greene appeared on the O’Reilly factor last night to discuss and opened with “The [...]

By Rachell Arteaga | Also posted in Reproductive Rights, WMC Advocacy | Comments (2)

Women Increasingly Included In News Stories, But Still Rarely Telling Them

March 4, 2010 – 4:30 pm

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 Catherine Epstein | Also posted in Feminism, International | Comments (0)

Global Girl Media “Kicks It Up!” with Julie Foudy

March 1, 2010 – 5:16 pm

“Give a girl a camera and watch a woman grow.”
-  Kgomotso Matsunyane, T.O.M. Pictures, South Africa
Yesterday, Global Girl Media (GGM) Cofounder and Executive Director Amie Williams, Program Director Kamala Lopez and Director of Content and Distribution Therese Steiner organized an intimate brunch in New York City with Guest of Honor Julie Foudy in the lovely [...]

By Rachell Arteaga | Also posted in International, Sports | Comments (3)

A Transformative Oscar Moment?

March 1, 2010 – 11:43 am

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 [...]

By Melissa Silverstein | Also posted in Entertainment, Feminism, WMC Exclusives, WMC Exclusives Articles, Women in Film | Comments (11)

Breaking the Glass Grandstand in Women’s Sports

February 26, 2010 – 4:48 pm

As the 2010 Winter Olympic games come to a close, we head into college basketball’s March Madness – the end-all, be-all of NCAA championships. While U.S. Skier Lindsay Vonn’s medal wins in Vancouver and Serena Williams’ victory at the Australian Open have made international headlines, triumphs in women’s team sports are still virtually unheard of [...]

By Leslie Von Pless | Also posted in Sports | Comments (0)