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August 3, 2010 – 11:36 am
Yesterday on BlogHer, Jill Miller Zimon examined why women rarely run for office in “No Excuses Allowed: Tackling the #1 Reason Women Don’t Run for Office.” In her analysis, Zimon decries the media’s culpability for its acceptance of sexism, as highlighted in WMC’s “Sexism Sells – But We’re Not Buying It” video (featured below). In [...]
By Sally Kohn
Commentator Sally Kohn, somewhat confused about Sarah Palin’s recent outreach video, asks here for a bit of clarification.
Dear Ms. Palin,
I’m a little confused by your recent video calling for an uprising of “Mama Grizzlies”—the label you give to conservative women who allegedly have their conservative undergarments in a bunch over President [...]
November 17, 2009 – 8:50 pm
Statement by WMC President Jehmu Greene
The Women’s Media Center strongly objects to Newsweek’s cover featuring Sarah Palin in short shorts and a fitted top. It is clear that, under pressure to be provocative, Newsweek is using Sarah Palin as a pin-up girl to sell magazines.
Like all political figures, Palin’s record, policies [...]
November 4, 2009 – 12:25 pm
Look for new WMC President Jehmu Greene on Laura Flanders’ GRITtv today discussing the one-year anniversary of the election with Katrina vanden Heuvel, Mark Green, and Jane Hamsher, and on PBS’s To The Contrary this weekend, giving viewers a deeper look at the WMC.
GRITtv will begin streaming LIVE at 12pm TODAY!
How Moms Feel About Social Media
6/26/09
Wall Street Journal: Mothers have dramatically increased their use of social-networking tools in the past three years, according to a new survey of 25,000 women conducted by parenting site BabyCenter.
Lynn Rosenthal Named White House Adviser On Violence Against Women
6/26/09
AP via Washington Post: A longtime advocate for victims of domestic [...]
January 21, 2009 – 12:47 pm
By Carol Jenkins
Women’s Media Center President Carol Jenkins witnessed a day that will change her family and our nation, as Barack Obama became the 44th President of the United States of America.
In the darkness of predawn, we walked silently through the streets of Washington to take our places on the mall. As the day began, [...]
December 17, 2008 – 10:23 pm
They always disappoint you, these politicians. I tend to be a bit of a Pollyanna or at least a cockeyed optimist even after all these years of political involvement. And though Obama’s appointments have sometimes been thrilling, sometimes worrying; I figured we needed to cut the guy some slack; he’s got a mighty hard job [...]
By Gloria Feldt
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Also posted in Health, International, Politics, Reproductive Rights
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Tagged Barack Obama, inaugural invocation, inauguration, Jeremiah Wright, progressive clergy, religious intolerance, religious right, Rick Warren, Tom Davis
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December 15, 2008 – 5:45 pm
Girl w/Pen Digest for Monday, December 15th, 2008
Here’s what’s brewing over at Girl w/ Pen, the group blog I created two years ago that went “group” this fall (I being PWV participant Deborah Siegel):
GWP goes global…
Check our recent “Global Exchange” post by Gwendolyn Beetham and Tonni Ann Brodber. Their exploration of the gendered impacts [...]
By Deborah Siegel
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Also posted in Blogging, Feminism, Health, International, Politics, Reproductive Rights, Young Women & Feminism
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Tagged Deborah Siegel, Girl W/Pen, Gwendolyn Beetham, Laura Mazer, Obama, The Masculinity Project, Tonni Ann Brodber, Veronica Arreola
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November 21, 2008 – 9:55 am
By Celeste Watkins-Hayes
The soon-to-be first family presents a potent role model. Here, the author, a sociologist and African American Studies assistant professor at Northwestern, describes the other half of the political agenda that is essential if we are to embrace the “politics of personal responsibility.”
November 10, 2008 – 3:54 pm
THE MORNING AFTER… The Women’s Media Center held a POST-ELECTION DAY CALL to discuss the results of the race for President and the media’s coverage of women, moderated by WMC President Carol Jenkins and featuring WMC Progressive Women’s Voices participants.
Click here for the MP3 recording of the conference call.
PWV Participants are listed here, with longer [...]
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