Black women directed just 2 of the 500 top-grossing films from 2007 to 2012, according to a study by the Women’s Media Center

WMC co-founder and longtime feminist activist Gloria Steinem added, “The American public—and especially women—deserve accurate, informed, and experienced media coverage on reproductive health, state and feder-al legislation, abortion and contraception. This research is offered in the hope of increasing public information about reproductive justice—which means the right to have or not to have children—as a basic human right.

Men are controlling the conversation on reproductive rights in this country, according to a new studyby the Women’s Media Center.

“Reproductive freedom will almost surely be an issue in November’s presidential election,” Julie Burton said. “The outcomes of these ballot-box choices significantly impact not only public health — but also women’s health. Yet, our study shows that in articles about elections and reproduc-tive issues, men’s voices prevail.”

Reproductive health, rights and choices are fundamen-tal and inescapable parts of women’s lives,” Julie Burton, president of the Women’s Media Center, told Mic. “Yet, our study shows that women often are left out of the dis-cussion. Women — who are 51 percent of the population — only wrote slightly more than a third.”