The Women's Media Center works to make women visible and powerful in the media. Led by our president, Julie Burton, the WMC works with the media to ensure that women’s stories are told and women’s voices are heard.
We are directly engaged with the media at all levels to ensure that a diverse group of women is present in newsrooms, on air, in print and online, in film, entertainment, and theater, as sources and subjects.
The Women’s Media Center was founded in 2005 as a nonprofit progressive women's media organization by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem.
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The Women’s Media Center's report - WMC 2020 Investigation: Gender & Non-Acting Primetime Emmy Nominations - found that a bigger pool of nominations for the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards hasn’t made much of a difference in bringing overall gender parity to the nominations in behind-the-scenes categories: Women represented 35% of those nominations while men were 65%.
Newsroom executives need to better protect journalists from online abuse and harassment if they are to retain women and people of color in media, according to a Women’s Media Center report released today.
The overall percentage of female Oscar nominees in non-acting categories rose by just 5 percentage points to 30 percent this year - a long way from gender parity - according to a Women’s Media Center analysis.
Despite a year in television that was dominated by female-driven content on screen, gender parity remains elusive for women in non-acting nominations for the 2019 Primetime Emmy Awards, according to the most recent Women’s Media Center analysis.
Women's Media Center releases new study of the representation of women and girls in science fiction and superhero films from 2009 - 2018.
The report highlights that sci-fi/superhero films have been mostly by, about and for men or boys.
The Women’s Media Center’s Investigation 2019: Gender and Non-Acting Oscar Nominations finds that women are, again, missing from the picture. No women were nominated in Directing, Cinematography, Editing, Original Score, and Visual Effects, and only one woman was nominated in Animated Feature film and in each of the two writing categories.
Study from BBCAmerica and Women's Media Center highlights that girls believe there are not enough female role models or strong, relatable female characters in media. Female sci-fi and superhero characters help bridge confidence gap.
A year following revelations in The New York Times about decades of allegations against movie producer Harvey Weinstein, the #MeToo movement has led to a significant change in the way media covers stories about sexual assault and harassment, a new report from the Women’s Media Center shows.
Men received 70 percent of the non-acting nominations in the 2018 Primetime Emmy Awards, according to a new report published by the Women’s Media Center.
Fifty years after the Kerner Commission criticized the news media for not sufficiently covering race issues, a new special report shows that women of color continue to be underrepresented in U.S. newsrooms and face multiple challenges in achieving equality in hiring and promotions.
A new study finds the number of women Oscar nominees grew only slightly in Academy Awards given for non-acting categories this year — despite a concerted push by women and their allies to achieve greater representation for females in all parts of the film industry. Men represent 77 percent of the nominees for behind-the-scenes roles, according to a report by the Women’s Media Center.
Men continue their dominance in the non-acting categories for the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards. Men represent 72 percent of nominations, compared to 28 percent for women. In the combined categories of writing, directing, editing, and producing, women represent only 26 percent of the nominees.
New research headlines WMC’s annual report on the Status of Women in U.S. Media.
New research headlines WMC’s annual report on the Status of Women in U.S. Media.