“If you’re a senior woman or a professional woman and you’re in an environment where women are being objectified to sell products, that makes it difficult for you to be treated seriously,” said Kate McCarthy, director of SheSource for the Women’s Me-dia Center.

Women are more likely than men to use social media, with 71% of women participating compared with 62% of men, according to the latest report from Women’s Media Center. However, what psy-chologists and researchers find especially interesting is that, while women are equally willing to share the the thoughts they spew out into the digital ether with someone face to face, men are much less likely to do the same.

The Women’s Media Center released their 2014 Status of Women in U.S. Media Report yesterday, and the findings are, disappointingly, pretty much what you’d expect. Over the past three years, women’s visibility in media has remained largely the same (i.e. disproportionately low), with women—particularly women of color—actually losing ground in some areas. Though the report cites Shonda Rhimes and Jill Abramson as heartening success stories, the overall data “suggest a troubling status quo and, in some places, a slipping back in time.” Just white dudes whitin’ around, as usual. Sigh.

Toward the end of the hour, Simmons turned the discussion to the lack of female show runners in Hollywood, a topic Dunham has spoken out about multiple times in the past. But her comments carried even more weight this week after the Women’s Media Center released its annual Status of Women in U.S. Media re-port. The center, founded by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem, seeks to make women visible and powerful in media. As such, its annual report analyzed women in all facets of media, both in front of and behind the camera.

The media is failing women across the board,” said Julie Burton, president of the Center. “The numbers tell a clear story for the need for change on every media platform.” The Women’s Me-dia Center is a nonprofit organization founded in 2005 by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem. It released the re-port in advance of a panel discussion on “Women, Media and Leadership” being held Wednesday in conjunction with Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Karen Finney, host of MSNBC’s “Disrupt with Karen Finney” is moderating the panel.

Women are inching towards media equality, but it’s slow going. That’s what we learned from the Women’s Media Center’s annu-al report on the status of women in TV, news, movies, and even social media.

The Women’s Media Center released its latest report on the sta-tus of women in media today, and it’s chock-full of jaw dropping info like this. The study details persistent gender inequality across the board for women—in representation, (lack of) decision-mak-ing roles, and, of course, pay scale.

The Women’s Media Center released their annual report on the status of women in the U.S. media, which takes a detailed look at how women and minorities are represented and portrayed in all types of media, from newspapers and magazines to film and entertainment media. The report found that while progress has been made in some areas, women are still struggling for a voice and a presence in the entertainment industry, both on screen and behind the scenes.

An 18-year-old Free Syrian Army soldier was jailed in the fall of 2012, and Syrian government troops brought his fiancee, sisters, mother and female neighbors to the prison. But this wasn’t a regular visitation, according to Women Under Siege, a group affiliated with the Women’s Media Center. Each of these women was raped in front of the prisoner.

Name It. Change It., a joint project by the Women’s Media Center and She Should Run, offers research that says women in politics face this scrutiny regularly. A focus on looks affects political credibility, the research also shows.

Utilizing the medium to its fullest potential, Zeilinger fused a generation gap when she created a space where young feminists could connect with one another, feel a little less alone in their beliefs, and have their voices heard. For decades, adults have been talking about the future of feminism — the FBomb allows the future of feminism to join the conversation.

It’s not her mother’s brand of feminism, to be sure, but the sassy tone and honest rapport resonate with girls the world over…The blog has a light, informative touch with serious topics like forced marriage and hate crimes while also posting thoughtful personal tales on the trouble with bathing suits and boyfriends. The writing is fresh, never jaded, and makes the reader feel as though she is discovering the world anew.

There are so many powerful stories on the Women Under Siege website.

With both the silencing and shame of rape victims a global phenomenon, I found this project moving and inspirational. Go and have a look.