September 29, 2021 | By Erin Spencer Sairam | Forbes
America’s Five Big Sunday Shows Remain Very Male, Very White

The Women’s Media Center (WMC), a nonprofit that conducts research on and advocates for the visibility of women and girls in media, released a report last week that analyzed the demographics of host and guest appearances on the five biggest Sunday shows. Researchers looked at episodes that aired in 2020 for ABC’s This Week, CBS’s Face the Nation, CNN’s State of the Union, Fox News Sunday, and NBC’s Meet the Press.


 
September 29, 2021 | By Jason Middleton | Ms. Magazine
Rest in Power: Rosalie Maggio, Feminist Author and “a Woman’s Woman”

Rosalie Maggio, recently of Los Angeles, Calif., died Sept. 18, 2021, after a short, heroic battle with pancreatic cancer. An award-winning author of 24 books and hundreds of articles, Maggio was on the forefront of popularizing inclusive language and women’s quotations.


 
September 24, 2021 | Editor and publisher
White men dominate guest appearances on five big Sunday TV news shows in 2020

More than two-thirds of the guests on five prominent Sunday morning TV news shows in 2020 were men, and most of those guests were white men, according to a new report on gender and race representation released by the Women’s Media Center.


 
September 24, 2021 | By Damare Baker | Was
Report: Women Are Woefully Under-Represented on Sunday TV Talk Shows

A new report released on Tuesday shows that there is disproportionate gender and racial representation on the five top Sunday news shows.

The report found that 68 percent of the guest appearances on these shows were men, and that more than half of the guests were White men. Despite accounting for nearly 51 percent of the United States population, women made up only 32 percent of guest appearances and White women were 23 percent of the total guests amongst the five shows.


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