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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Today, the Women’s Media Center tracks gender and race representation in print, broadcast, and online, in biannual-ish reports it began issuing in 2013.
One hundred and fifteen years after the protests that would become the first International Women’s Day, women around the globe are still fighting for equal pay, the right to make decisions about their bodies and the ability to be treated as full and equal citizens.
Billie Jean King is a pioneer for gender equity, winning the landmark “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match in 1973 and devoting the next 50 years to fighting for equal pay for women. Gloria Steinem founded Ms. magazine, the National Women’s Political Caucus and the Women’s Media Center and is one of the most prominent feminist leaders of the 21st century.
Less than 13% of all guest appearances on the most influential Sunday morning shows in 2020 were women of color, according to a review by the Women’s Media Center.
68% of all guest appearances on the shows reviewed were men, 53% were white men, according to the Women Media Center.
The Oscars have a long way to go when it comes to recognizing non-male, non-white talent. So says a new study conducted by the Women’s Media Center, a nonprofit working to improve representation for women and minorities in film, TV and more. The effort analyzed 17 years of Academy Awards nominations – and found that women received just 22% of all non-acting nods.
(A report published last year by Women's Media Center found that women make up 43% of prime-time weekday broadcast and cable TV news anchors and correspondents.)
When the Women’s Media Center announced a lifetime achievement award in my name, Barbara asked to present it to me—a moment I’ll never forget. Afterwards, we shared a laugh about that first ladies’ room encounter.
A report by The Women's Media Center (WMC) has highlighted the amount of abuse women face online.
"Between 25% and 40 percent of American adult Internet users say they have been harassed online," the report said. "45 percent report experiencing "more severe" kinds of harassment. 57 percent of people reporting harassment in the US are women.
"An 11-year analysis of online harassment cases found that women made up 72% of victims and men 47.5 percent of perpetrators," according to the WMC.
Diversity, equity and inclusion have rapidly become top policy priorities in the workplace. But beyond the Instagram black squares and Notes app apologies, it’s not clear whether much has changed. On Tuesday, LM Live‘s final Women’s Breakfast of the year convened a panel of top DEI experts at the Studio at 7 World Trade Center: Thaly Germain, managing director of Transformation & Culture at BerlinRosen, and Evelyn Ontaneda, a DEI and talent and organizational development consultant and strategist. Erica González, founding editor of IDAR/E at the Women’s Media Center and the director of #Power4PuertoRico, moderated the panel.
At the Women's Media Center's 2022 Women's Media Awards last week, Steinem — a co-founder of the organization — opened up about her relationship with the Duchess of Sussex.
NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell, accepting a lifetime achievement award from the Women’s Media Center, said that there “was a lot left undone” for women in the news media, citing the situation in other countries and also in the United States.
NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Media Center on Thursday night.
“El aborto era un pecado. Si se hablaba del tema era en secreto, porque era un tabú”. Así recuerda la abogada Mariana Ardila Trujillo las primeras injusticias y cuestionamientos que tuvo en su adolescencia frente a la Interrupción Voluntaria del Embarazo (IVE). Décadas después, ella misma haría parte de la marea verde que reivindicó los derechos de las mujeres a decidir sobre sus cuerpos en Colombia.
The Women's Media Center will open the Women's Media Awards with a special WMC Solidarity Tribute to the Women's Revolution in Iran.
Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem — the Co-Founders of The WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER — announce the honorees for the 2022 Women’s Media Awards, to be held on Thursday, November 17th, at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City.
NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell was honored Thursday night with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Women’s Media Center in New York. Mitchell said in her remarks, “When I came to NBC News, I was blessed with the friendship and mentorship of my then-NBC colleague Judy Woodruff, and when I started covering the White House, Lesley Stahl of CBS and Cokie Roberts of NPR and ABC. We were a band of sisters, competing for exclusives, but commiserating on the campaign plane or Air Force One about husbands, children, boyfriends, aging parents, and a host of other challenges at home.”
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