WMC News & Features
September 03, 2026 | Gloria Steinem (1934 - 2026), Julie Burton, Robin Morgan (1941 - 2026), Jane Fonda., Janet Dewart Bell, Erica González Martínez, Soraya Chemaly |
Gloria Steinem
Women’s Media Center Mourns Passing of Gloria Steinem WMC Co-Founder, Journalist, Author, Activist, Feminist, Organizer, Friend
Julie Burton, President and CEO of the Women’s Media Center (WMC), released a statement on behalf of the Women’s Media Center mourning the passing of WMC Co-Founder Gloria Steinem — journalist, author, activist, feminist, organizer, and friend.
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January 05, 2023 | Gloria Steinem (1934 - 2026) |
Feminism
We Live as Long as We Are Remembered: Gloria Steinem Remembers Dorothy Pitman Hughes
Dorothy Pitman Hughes, who died in December, is remembered as a pioneer of civil rights, early childhood education, domestic violence shelters, and feminism. Gloria Steinem considers “the power of one person to influence history.”
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Gloria Steinem in Conversation With Loreen Arbus
Loreen Arbus — author, television executive, philanthropist, and advocate for people with disabilities — will be the recipient of the WMC Leadership Award at the Women’s Media Center Women’s Media Awards on Thursday, November 17. On the occasion of this honor, Arbus joined WMC co-founder Gloria Steinem for a discussion about leadership, advocacy, and being a groundbreaker.
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February 24, 2012 | Gloria Steinem (1934 - 2026), Lauren Wolfe |
Gloria Steinem,
Misogyny,
Violence against women
Sexual violence against women is the result of the cult of masculinity
Gangs of young men rape girls. They also sometimes act as pimps that seduce a girl, then subject her to gang rape or otherwise insist that she sexually service gang members. Some girls are so desperate for acceptance and so convinced by sexual abuse that they have no other value: they see this as inevitable.
WMC Women Under Siege
February 09, 2012 | Gloria Steinem (1934 - 2026), Lauren Wolfe |
International,
Misogyny,
Violence against women
Can we end rape as tool of war?
We first thought about starting this piece with the story of Saleha Begum, a survivor of Bangladesh's 1971 war in which, some reports say, as many as 400,000 women were raped. Begum had been tied to a banana tree and repeatedly gang raped and burned with cigarettes for months until she was shot and left for dead in a pile of women. She didn't die, though, and was able to return home, ravaged and five months pregnant. When she got home she was branded a "slut."
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Why Mama Grizzlies Vote Pro-Choice
WMC Co-founder Gloria Steinem writes about the most crucial economic issues for women on Election Day–and the real Mama Grizzlies.
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Surprise! Immigration Is A Woman's Issue!
In the wake of the recent passing of the harsh anti-immigrant law in Arizona, Gloria Steinem, writer, feminist organizer and cofounder of the Women’s Media Center, and Pramila Jayapal, an immigrant herself, and founder and executive director of OneAmerica, a national organization that works for civil and human rights for immigrants, consider the unique impact of immigration on women.
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Leaders as Guides of Return: Wilma Mankiller
In her book, Revolution from Within (1992), Gloria Steinem tells a story about her close friend and collaborator Wilma Mankiller, who died yesterday. In the excerpt below (pages 94 to 98), Steinem describes how Mankiller, even before she became the first woman chief of the Cherokee Nation, led by empowering her people.
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It’s Not a Man’s World or a Woman’s Nation
You’re going to be seeing a multimedia blitz about a new national study of women’s status called The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything. Gloria Steinem gives you a preview of this project created by Maria Shriver and a D.C. think tank, and suggests ways you can use it and also judge its success.
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September 04, 2008 | Gloria Steinem (1934 - 2026) |
Politics
She’s Phyllis Schlafly, Only Younger
Here’s the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing—the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party—are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president.
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Women Are Never Front-Runners
THE woman in question became a lawyer after some years as a community organizer, married a corporate lawyer and is the mother of two little girls, ages 9 and 6. Herself the daughter of a white Ameri...
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A Modest Proposal . . .
. . . to the Young Man on the Plane from Los Angeles to Seattle who said of the movie that most passengers—male and female—voted to watch, “I don’t watch chick flicks!”
So what exactly is a “chick...
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May 14, 2007 | Gloria Steinem (1934 - 2026) |
Feminism
Mother as a Verb
I’ve been thinking about Mother’s Day, and why I and others, who are not mothers, identify with this day just as much as if we were.
Of course, it’s partly because we owe our lives and love to our...
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Right Candidates, Wrong Question
Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking which candidate are Americans more ready for, a white woman or a bla...
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Women Who Are in Trouble—and We Don’t Care!
There is still a false idea out there that feminists back every woman, regardless of how she behaves. Let's leave that behind right along with 2006.
In fact, feminism is just the belief that all p...
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April 06, 2006 | Gloria Steinem (1934 - 2026) |
Media
Response to Couric
Gloria Steinem, a founder of The Women's Media Center, has the following words in response to Katie Couric's recent move:
By leaving a safe haven, taking a pay cut, and risking the harsh spotlight...
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Gloria Steinem in conversation with Niki Caro, director of North Country
Niki Caro stopped to talk to Gloria Steinem and the Women's Media Center about her film, North Country, on her way to Minnesota for the premier that she says matters most – a screening for the community where the story was lived and filmed.