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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"Right now, only 32 percent of CBS Nightly News’ anchors, field reporters, and correspondents are women. In The Status of Women in U.S. Media in 2017, the Women’s Media Center found that female anchored news shows hire more women for these positions than their male led counterparts. Judy Woodruff's NewsHour on PBS, which she co-anchored with Gwen Ifill prior to Ifill's death last year, leads evening news broadcasts in producing the work of female news correspondents."
“Men don’t just shape legislation that impacts women’s health, according to Julie Burton, WMC president. They also shape much of the coverage of issues that directly affect women: Male authors represent “over 52 percent of bylined articles and opinion pieces about reproductive rights in the 12 most widely circulated newspapers and wire services,” Burton tells CJR via email. Roughly 37 percent are attributable to female authors, and the remainder appear without bylines.
“In addition numerous databases have been set up to assist researchers who might be at a loss in identifying women experts for their news coverage. There is The Women’s Room, SheSource an ongoing project of the Women’s Media Center and The OpEd Project to name but a few.”
Men accounted for 61 percent of the bylines that appeared in the front section of The Times last year, according to data soon to be published by the Women’s Media Center, a group that analyzes thousands of bylines across 10 top newspapers every year.
Research by the Women’s Media Center concluded that women were often underrepresented on cable news programs during the presidential election — even on shows with female hosts. Analysts who appeared on CNN’s “New Day,” co-hosted by Camerota, were 68 percent male, for example.
Those in the latter group stood out as women recognized in non-acting categories, which are still dominated—to the tune of 80%—by men, according to a study by the Women’s Media Center. The most blatant boys’ club is the category of cinematography, which has—for the Oscars’ entire 89-year history—never seen a female nominee. Women were also absent among best director nominees for the seventh year in a row.
Women account for only 20 percent of the non-acting categories in the Academy’s 2017 nominations, and the already-abysmal number of female Oscar nominees across all categories dropped 2% from last year, according to a Women’s Media Center analysis
The Women’s Media Center recently found that women accounted for only 20 percent of this year’s non-acting Oscar nominees, a figure that lines up with similar findings by San Diego State researcher Martha Lauzen
Overall representation of women in Oscar-nominated behind-the-scenes categories fell 2 percent, according to a recent report from the Women’s Media Center.
In 2017, 80 percent of nominees in non-acting Oscars categories were men, according the Women's Media Center. Not only that, but zero women were up for Original Screenplay, while only one woman — Hidden Figures writer Allison Schroeder — received a nom for Adapted Screenplay.
It came as no surprise, then, when the Washington-based Women's Media Center crunched the Oscar numbers to reveal that only 20 percent of this year's non-acting nominees were female
In data compiled by the Women’s Media Center, an organization co-founded by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem, it was revealed that women represent only 20 per cent of the non-acting categories in the 89th annual Academy Award nominations.
Women earned a number of barrier-breaking Oscar nominations this year, but overall representation of women in Oscar-nominated behind-the-scenes categories fell two percent according to a report from the Women's Media Center published Monday. The report, authored by awards blogger Sasha Stone, noted landmark achievements — like how "Jackie" composer Mica Levi became the first women to be nominated for original score, and how Joi McMillon became the first black woman to earn an editing nomination — but bemoaned the decrease in female nominees overall despite efforts by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to expand and diversify membership.
A study from the Women’s Media Center, a non-profit organization founded by Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem, and writer Robin Morgan, has released a new report tracking the number of women nominated for non-acting Oscars this year. No female directors were nominated, the study points out (via Variety), while one female screenwriter, stories three times as often as women
A study by the Women's Media Center found that women only made up 20 percent of the nominees in non-acting categories, which is down 2 percent from last year. This year also failed to see a woman nominated in the Best Director category, and it's also the 89th year in which a woman hasn't been included in the cinematographer category. Eighty-nine also happens to be the entire history of the iconic award show.
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