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 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.”

“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.”

Julie Burton, president of the Women’s Media Center, put it perfectly: “Women who bravely come forward to re-port rape deserve media that represents their voices in equal measure to those of men,” she said in the report.

Women’s Media Center President Julie Burton urged the media to “take a hard look at where it stands on this kind of critical work and figure out how it plans to move forward in a more equitable way.”

Cristal Williams Chancellor, director of communications for WMC, wrote that “To tell the whole story, the demographics of the journalists must reflect the demographics of society.”

The report comes out of the Women’s Media Center(which counts Gloria Steinem as a co-founder) and it sheds light on some problematic trends in the coverage of sexual assault on high school and college campuses.

“Unspinning the Spin: The Women’s Media Center Guide to Fair and Accurate Language” has a preface written by Gloria Steinem and Robin Morgan, who co-founded the Women’s Media Center in 2005 (along with Jane Fonda) to raise the visibility and decision-making power of women in media.

The Women’s Media Center offers one window into the tragedy, tracking news reports of sexual violence in the Mid-dle East. So, far, they’ve collected 275 accounts, though the number is probably higher.

When the Emmy-winning comedian and Trainwreck star, 34, opened the Women’s Media Center Awards on Thursday addressing body image and women in Hollywood, she got a nod of approval from feminist icon Gloria Steinem

PBS NewsHour co-anchors and managing editors Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff were honored with the Women’s Media Center’s Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award at the Center’s 10th anniversary gala in New York.

Julie Burton, president of the Women’s Media Center, though, points out that the objectification is meaningful, as is the part of the announcement that says Playboy will con-tinue to feature women posing and dressing provocatively.

The show, which follows advertising executive Draper from the 1950s to the 1970s, has historically fared much better in behind-the-scenes Emmys categories. Most notably, it has produced more nominations for women writers than any other TV show of the last decade, according to a 10-yearanalysis published this week by the Women’s Media Cen-ter, a nonprofit that examines women’s representation pri-marily in entertainment and journalism