“Global warming makes future pandemics inevitable,” Fonda writes. “Such outbreaks are immediate crises, often causing people to change their habits overnight. The climate crisis is less obvious, allowing the more privileged to believe it is something that will one day — maybe — impact them.”

“Climate change affects us all. However, the lack of diversity in the policy arena and in media can obscure the disproportionate impact on women, indigenous people, and people of color. All must be at the table to address this existential threat to quality of life and the future of all humankind,” said WMC board chair Janet Dewart Bell. “Through the WMC Climate channel, we are positioning the people global warming affects the most front and center for readers.”

Last year, the Women’s Media Center graded sports desks at 75 of the nation’s newspapers and online sites with a “B+” for racial diversity, but a “D+” for gender and racial diversity combined.

“Janet has dedicated her career to advocating for gender and racial parity, as an author and through important media and communications positions,” said WMC co-founder Jane Fonda. “The WMC board has been well served from her years as vice chair. We are excited about her leadership as chair of the board.”

Protesters should link up with organizations that gather hiring statistics, such as USC’s Annenberg School, the Women’s Media Center, the NAACP and GLAAD. Those stats are key: They offer numbers about how much progress is/isn’t being made.

"Fifteen years ago, we created the Women's Media Center to address many of the root problems of women's invisibility," Steinem says in a statement. "We had no idea that in such a world crisis as this one, the WMC would be needed more than ever."

“It’s not just an embarrassment, it’s a threat to our democracy,” says Chemaly, who got into this work after being targeted herself for her writing. “A fundamental requirement for democracy that we don’t talk about that much is physical security,” she adds, and women “don’t have the luxury of a distinction” between the digital world and the “real” world.

Julie Burton, President and CEO of WMC, said, "We are so grateful to these artists and friends of WMC for donating unique and valuable personal items to be auctioned to provide financial support for the Women's Media Center. This important anniversary is a good moment to reflect on everything we have accomplished - and our plans for the future. The fight for women's equality in the media is far from over. We have a lot of work to do, and we are proud to have these artists stand with us and support our work for inclusion, representation, and equality."

“For decades, traditional historians erased Idár, and these days the silencing and omission of Latinas in media continues,” said Julie Burton, president and CEO of the Women’s Media Center. “Latinas are frequently made absent on Sunday shows, in newsrooms, at cable networks, on op-ed pages, and online."

"IDAR/E is a new platform for progressive, diverse, feminist Latinx women across generations to write about issues the way we experience and analyze them. From Latinas weighing in on the C-suite to the treatment of blackness among us, or the silent trauma immigration reporters experience, you will find these topics and more at IDAR/E," said González Martínez

The Guardian in Britain banned feisty when used to describe women, while the Women’s Media Center encourages journalists not to use “gendered terms such as ‘feisty,’ ‘spirited,’ ‘opinionated’ UNLESS your outlet would use them on a male candidate.”

“Chris Jahnke was family, and we will never fully recover from her passing. She taught hundreds of women to find their own voices, and to be louder and clearer in their messages. She was a fierce advocate for representation, inclusion, and equality, and she left the world a better place for it,” the Women’s Media Center said in a statement on the group’s Twitter page.

“There was true joy on her face as you went through training and you’d see a trainee get it and connect and suddenly the skills kick in, along with the comfort level and the confidence,” Julie Burton, president of the Women’s Media Center, said in an interview. “She not only transformed what a person could do, she transformed a movement.”

Julie Burton, president of the Women’s Media Center founded by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem, estimated that Ms. Jahnke had trained 70 percent of the women who have attended the center’s media training programs.