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- 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
February 24, 2010 – 6:42 pm
After letting loose a string of misogynist remarks, ESPN’s Tony Kornheiser has been suspended by the network for two weeks. On his February 16 radio show, Kornheiser said that SportsCenter anchor Hannah Storm wore “a horrifying, horrifying outfit today. She’s got on red go-go boots and a Catholic school plaid skirt…way too short for somebody [...]
February 20, 2010 – 11:04 am
After a week of media build up, CBS, NBC and ABC interrupted daytime’s regularly scheduled programming to air Tiger Woods’ apology and subsequent “news” commentary labeling it a “Special Report.” That’s national airtime. Hmm, special report like Obama’s State of the Union Address? Who knew a celebrity golfer’s painfully boring speech could be so “special.” [...]
February 12, 2010 – 5:40 pm
Working Mother has just named the Most Powerful Moms in Sports, from U.S. Open champ Kim Clijsters to co-owner of the Colorado Rockies Linda Alvarado. Olympic ice skating champion Kristi Yamaguchi is also named among their Celebrity Moms, and both features prove that motherhood doesn’t mean the end of being a tough woman (for many, [...]
February 8, 2010 – 4:48 pm
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February 7, 2010 (New York, NY) – The Tebow Super Bowl ad has aired, and as expected, it is a benign telling of the Tebow family story that attempts to hide Focus on the Family’s true anti-choice, anti-woman, and homophobic agenda.
We respect Pam Tebow’s choice [...]
February 6, 2010 – 12:32 pm
With 200,000 of your letters in hand, the WMC is not backing down. Join Gloria Steinem, WMC President Jehmu Greene, Shelby Knox, and special guests on Super Bowl Sunday as we continue to hold CBS the NFL accountable for their biased policy reversal in favor of Focus on the Family’s anti-choice, anti-woman, homophobic agenda.
JOCKOCRACY, [...]
February 3, 2010 – 4:14 pm
We alerted you to CBS’s decision to air an anti-choice ad during the Super Bowl sponsored by Focus on the Family, an organization that promotes forced pregnancy. Here at the Women’s Media Center, we didn’t have an extra $2.8 million lying around to run a counter-ad, but we did spearhead the coalition to get CBS [...]
February 3, 2010 – 3:34 pm
Almost 100 million Americans will watch the Super Bowl on Sunday, to see the top two men’s football teams go head to head for one of the most coveted championship titles in the nation. Perhaps the least surprising part of the game is that the only women participating will be ever-more-minimally-clothed cheerleaders on the sidelines.
Besides [...]
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