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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For additional information, please contact Cristal Williams Chancellor, director of communications, cristal@womensmediacenter.com or 202-270-8539 or mediarelations@womensmediacenter.com.
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Calcutta: Skewed representation in media, silenced voices in web forums and rising cases of harassment at the workplace - the story of gender bias is much the same in America as in India or elsewhere across the world.
Cristal Williams Chancellor, a journalist-turned-rights advocate from the US on a four-day tour of the city, heard stories of Indian women and shared her own stories too.
The importance of inclusion in the industry has dominated headlines over the past year. However, it has still not translated to Academy voters: The 70th annual Emmy award nominees are overwhelming white and male.
Experts tackle the phenomenon of angry men, trolls, racists and misogynists who hover around the video game industry
According to the Women’s Media Center, Lee’s Straight White Men opens on June 29th at the Hayes Theater. The play, which will star Armie Hammer, opened off-Broadway in 2014 and centers on a widowed father and his three adult sons home for the holidays.
“I try to open doors as much as I can for other women of color and other journalists of color,” New York Times journalist and MacArthur Fellow Nikole Hannah-Jones recently told the Women’s Media Center. “For an unemployed journalist who has had seven or 10 interviews and nothing pans out, I don’t think I can rightly tell that person not to leave the industry . . . . And it’s hard to tell people to stay in a field that’s not valuing them, where they are having a hard time finding full-time work. That’s a precarious position.”
The discussion was followed by a demonstration of SheSource.org, led by Kate McCarthy, the Director of Programs for the Women's Media Center. SheSource is an online database with over 1400 female experts on a wide variety of topics.
Several groups — the Women’s Media Center, the journal PLOS One and The OpEd Project — have analyzed the gender mix of voices in the media.
Women now have 39 percent of the bylines in The Times, just above the industry average of 38.1 percent, according to the Women's Media Center.
A new report by the Women's Media Center documents the systemic racism and gender bias in the U.S. News Media. The report, "The Status of Women of Color in the U.S. News Media 2018," shows that women of color are severely underrepresented in all news media.
We discuss the report, and the challenges the female journalists of color face in the industry.
Diversity is important because it changes the ideas you hear and the stories you’re told, McCarthy says, and the Women’s Media Center is helping to make sure that those diverse voices get out there.
Gene Policinski talks with the Women’s Media Center about their recent report on the status of women of color in the American media.
SheSource is a database of over 1,340 women experts with media experience, run by the nonprofit organization, the Women’s Media Center (WMC). Free to use, it connects journalists with sources across all industries, championing competent female voices of different backgrounds, ability and geography – although, at the moment, it is mostly U.S.-focused.
The Women's Media Center hopes that reporting on stagnating hires of female journalists of color will serve as a "wake-up call" to the media and its consumers. Featuring "diverse voices means that we have a more credible media, and a more democratic society," said Cristal Williams Chancellor. "We need a media that's more representative and inclusive, and looks like America."
According to the Women's Media Center, men represented "77 percent of all nominees" this year, down from 80 percent one year earlier.
"At a time when women are demanding more power and visibility, these low numbers should be a wake-up call for Hollywood executives," Women's Media Center president Julie Burton said last month.
“Women cannot get through the door, and if they can’t get through the door, they can’t be recognized and rewarded for their excellence and impact.”
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