“One of the things we try to do at the Women’s Media Center is to model what an alternative media would look like, not just criticize.” — Robin Morgan

Still, Wu says she’s more bothered that young women might steer clear of gaming development than by the intimidation she is experiencing. Women represent 47 percent of gamers but only about 12 percent of game developers, according to a 2014 report by the Women’s Media Center

There’s much more consciousness how the media impacts our lives. There’s more activism. There’s more young girls convinc-ing magazines not to photoshop their fashion photographs and distort women’s bodies. “There’s much more consciousness but there’s not nearly enough actual change of who’s on and what topics are covered. But we’ll get there.” — Gloria Steinem

“The Women`s Media Center, yearly, comes out with this, which is the Status of Women in the U.S. Media and people can get it for free at WomensMediaCenter.com and just download it. And there`s everything you didn`t want to know that was hap-pening or not happening and everything you did. There`s very little praise in here, I want you to know. But there is this sentence, ‘our researchers pointed out one example of good stuff. MSNBC commentator Chris Hayes, who sees the merits in setting race and gender quotas for the media — Hayes’ bookers must in-clude two women among the four guests on each of his shows.’ “So congratulations — and you may frame that!” — Robin Morgan

Julie Burton, president of the Women’s Media Center, an orga-nization devoted to monitoring the images of women and their impact on culture, told me: “Television has great cultural and economic power. It tells us who we are and what our roles are in society.” Burton says she is excited by some of the recent de-pictions of women as leaders and candidates, but they are still “the exception.” She concluded, “If the standard TV image of a politician is a man, women—and importantly, girls—won’t see themselves in that picture and won’t aspire to those positions. That’s a loss for everyone.”