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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Mariska Hargitay chats with ET at the WMC Women's Media Awards in New York City on Thursday. The actress, who was honored with the WMC Sisterhood Is Powerful Award, opens up about why being recognized by those that have influenced her most is so meaningful. Plus, she praises Taylor Swift while sharing details about taking her 12-year-old daughter, Amaya, to the pop star's 'Eras' tour.
Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, Gloria Steinem Announce the Honorees for the 2023 Women's Media Awards
Dr. Janus Adams, historian, Emmy award winning journalist, host of The Janus Adams Show, author of 11 books, including Freedom Days: 365 Inspired Moments in Civil Rights History, and attendee of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, discusses her Women's Media Center feature on the historic march.
Fredricka Whitfield, one of CNN’s longest-serving anchors, is one of six women being honored with the 2023 Women’s Media Awards from the Women’s Media Center.
Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem — the Co-Founders of The WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER — announce the honorees for the 2023 Women’s Media Awards, to be held on Thursday, October 19th, at the Whitby Hotel in New York City.
With Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem — the co-founders of The Women’s Media Center — on hand to personally make the announcement, the honorees for the 2023 Women’s Media Awards have been revealed.
“The complete lack of representation in the media, in pop culture, in K-12 education not only erases us from the American consciousness, it inadvertently creates a bias,” Illuminative’s President and CEO Crystal Echohawk (Pawnee) told Women’s Media Center in a 2018 interview.
“The Court just handed stalkers and harassers, including of politicians, journalists, climate scientists, doctors advocating for vaccines, you name it, a new weapon,” said Soraya Chemaly, director of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project, an offshoot of the Women’s Media Center, which was founded in 2005 by the actress Jane Fonda and the feminists Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem.
In November 2022, the Women’s Media Center presented Andrea with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Many journalists covering the gender beat are embracing intersectional feminism and trying to avoid past mistakes, Heckman said.
“Past feminist movements were often synonymous with white, middle-class women who were professionally ambitious. Journalists I spoke to had a real eye towards considering the experiences of many different types of women,” she said. “A gender beat should be empowering. It shouldn't be limiting.”
A representatividade de mulheres na imprensa foi tema de palestra nesta segunda-feira (24/4), no auditório do Correio Braziliense. Em parceria com a Embaixada dos Estados Unidos, o jornal promoveu o encontro da redação e com a jornalista e diretora de Comunicação do Women's Media Center, Cristal Williams Chancellor. Na palestra, ela falou sobre presença, representação e desafios das mulheres na mídia.
The Westfield State community was recently honored as the site of the inaugural lecture of the Beverly Wettenstein Women’s History Lecture Series sponsored by the Women’s Media Center, a national non-profit organization organized to raise the visibility, viability, and decision-making power of women and girls in media. The event brought Dr. Cristina Azocar of San Francisco State University to campus to present “Pocahontas Chic: Damaging Media Representations of Indigenous Women”.
Doctor Cristina Azocar hosted the lecture, “Pocahontas Chic: Damaging Media Representations of Indigenous Women,” with the main message of how Native American women are represented in American media. 22News stopped by to speak with Azocar about what she wants the public to retain from the presentation.
“I want them to understand that the women’s media center has a lot of resources for women to ensure that we do have representation and that the students should also be looking beyond headlines, beyond the traditional media coverage, and looking at other sources,” said Doctor Cristina Azocar, Professor of Journalism, San Francisco University.
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