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.
This Women’s Media Center press kit contains approved WMC images, logos and biographies for reporters, editors, producers and bookers.
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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“Women in film—and especially women of color—continue to face discriminatory hurdles,” Jane Fonda, co-founder and co-chair of the Women’s Media Center, said on Thursday. “Hollywood is still an all-boys’ club.
Compiling data from the last 10 years, the Women’s Me-dia Center found that women represent only 19 percent of non-acting nominations.
To bring attention to this form of violence and get peo-ple to take it seriously, writer Soraya Chemaly and ac-tress Ashley Judd created the Women’s Media Center Speech Project.
The dominance of men’s voices on women’s health issues also goes deeper than politics: a 2016 Women’s Media Center study found that most women’s health stories are written by men, who in turn quote mostly men.
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 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.”
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.”
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.
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.”
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.”
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.
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