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WMC News & Features
January 15, 2026 | Marianne Schnall | Feminism, Gloria Steinem
Feminist Leaders Offer Insights and Calls for Action for the Year Ahead

Words of inspiration, resistance, encouragement, anger, and determination from a diverse group of women who are advocating and organizing for a better future.

WMC Live
June 30, 2024 | Gloria Steinem | Gloria Steinem, Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #446: Two Old Friends. (Original Airdate: 6/30/2024)
Season Finale! Robin’s final show until September is an exclusive interview with old friend Gloria Steinem, now age 90. An intimate talk over 50 years in the making—on life, death, fame, aging, family, persuasion, conflict, and much more.
WMC News & Features
November 09, 2022 | Gloria Steinem | Disability, Gloria Steinem, Media
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.

WMC FBomb
September 14, 2020 | Frances Nguyen | Gloria Steinem
An Interview with ‘The Glorias’ Director Julie Taymor

Taymor spoke with WMC’s The FBomb about the film and what audiences can take from Steinem’s extraordinary example.

WMC News & Features
October 23, 2019 | Julie Zeilinger | Gloria Steinem, Media, Robin Morgan
Women's Media Awards celebrate honorees elevating women in media

Four hundred people gathered last night at the 2019 WMC Women’s Media Awards at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City to honor a variety of women whose work embodies the WMC mission of making women visible and powerful in media.

WMC News & Features
November 02, 2018 Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, Media, Robin Morgan
2018 Women's Media Awards, in pictures

Four hundred guests gathered to celebrate women in media at the 2018 Women's Media Awards, held at the Capitale in New York City. Here are the pictures.

WMC News & Features
November 01, 2017 | Marianne Schnall | Feminism, Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, Media
Women's Media Awards honor Hillary Rodham Clinton, April Ryan, Maria Hinojosa, and other media trailblazers

A behind-the-scenes look at last week's Women's Media Awards, which highlighted the crucial work of media truth-tellers.

WMC News & Features
October 27, 2017 | Rebecca McCray | Feminism, Free Speech, Gender-based violence, Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, Media, Misogyny, Politics
A night at the Women's Media Awards: Leading the way for women after an oppressive year

A confluence of normalized misogyny and devaluing of women made Thursday’s Women’s Media Awards all the more uplifting, emphasizing the power of sisterhood and the voices of women in media.

WMC Women Under Siege
September 22, 2017 | Lucy Westcott | Feminism, Gender-based violence, Gloria Steinem, International, Violence against women
Global feminists—from Gloria Steinem to Leymah Gbowee—join in solidarity with Congolese women

On computer screens thousands of miles away from one another, some of the world’s leading feminist figures joined in solidarity with women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the country’s first-ever women’s summit on September 14.

WMC News & Features
October 08, 2015 | Robin Morgan | Feminism, Gloria Steinem, Robin Morgan
Gloria Steinem and Robin Morgan: On Gloria’s new book and the value of life on the road

Two WMC cofounders have a revealing conversation about Gloria Steinem's My Life on the Road.

WMC FBomb
December 16, 2014 | Julie Zeilinger | Arts and culture, Feminism, Gloria Steinem, Media
Dyllan McGee: The Force Behind MAKERS
Like countless aspects of the women’s movement before it, MAKERS, the renowned digital and video storytelling platform of women’s stories, started with Gloria Steinem. More accurately, it started when...
WMC FBomb
April 21, 2014 | Julie Zeilinger | Feminism, Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, Media, Robin Morgan
Exciting News: The FBomb Is Joining the Women's Media Center
Discovering the world of feminist blogging was an experience of simultaneous relief and isolation: just as Second Wave feminists have described the way consciousness raising allowed them to realize th...
WMC Live
December 06, 2013 | Gloria Steinem, Regina K. Scully, Estelle Freedman | Gloria Steinem, Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #62: Gloria Steinem, Regina K. Scully, Estelle Freedman. (Original Airdate 12/7/2013)
Robin starts a rumor: Koch Bros. paid hackers to damage the ObamaCare website! Guests: entrepreneur/filmmaker Regina K. Scully; historian Estelle Freedman; and Gloria Steinem in a special double segment on receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
WMC Women Under Siege
March 07, 2013 | Lauren Wolfe | Gloria Steinem, Media, Violence against women
Gloria Steinem challenges BBC presenter on violence against women
On Tuesday, Gloria Steinem, who originated WMC’s Women Under Siege, spoke to BBC “Hardtalk” presenter Stephen Sackur about the women’s movement. But I wanted to do more than point you to the video (which you can watch here) and highlight something I found particularly interesting about their chat.
WMC FBomb
December 13, 2012 | Julie Zeilinger | Feminism, Gloria Steinem, LGBTQIA, Misogyny, Sports
An Interview with Hudson Taylor of Athlete Ally
Hudson Taylor, a lifelong athlete and three-time NCAA All-American wrestler, is the founder of Athlete Ally, a nonprofit sports resource which, according to its website: "encourages all individuals in...
WMC FBomb
September 28, 2012 | Julie Zeilinger | Feminism, Gloria Steinem, Media, Politics, Violence against women
Saturday Vids: Gloria Steinem on Rush Limbaugh
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WMC Women Under Siege
September 13, 2012 | Jamia Wilson | Gloria Steinem, Violence against women
A forgotten battleground: Women’s bodies and the civil rights movement
Every few years, my consistently intrepid mother would experience terrifying nightmares. When I was 7, I asked her to tell me what monster was frightening her so much that she stirred and let out petrifying screams in her sleep.
WMC Live
August 26, 2012 | Gloria Steinem, Melanie L. Campbell, Emma Axelrod | Gloria Steinem, Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #1: Gloria Steinem, Melanie Campbell, Emma Axelrod. (Original Airdate 8/26/2012)
Robin speaks with high-school student Emma Axelrod campaigning for the first female presidential debate moderator in 20 years; Melanie Campbell on black voter suppression; and Gloria Steinem on writing, gun control, and walking through fields of lavender.
WMC Women Under Siege
February 24, 2012 | Gloria Steinem, 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 07, 2012 | Lauren Wolfe | Gloria Steinem, Violence against women
Q&A: Gloria Steinem on ending rape in war
It doesn’t matter where you look; sexualized violence is intrinsic to conflict. From Darfur to Libya to Guatemala, hundreds of thousands of women are suffering the its fallout, which has torn apart their bodies, their families, and their communities. As the director of Women Under Siege, I interviewed Steinem about what needs to be done to understand and stop it.
WMC News & Features
December 04, 2011 | Marianne Schnall | Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, Media, Robin Morgan
Media Heroes Recognized
To help envision a more equitable landscape, last week the WMC 2011 Women's Media Awards celebrated today's powerful and visible women in media.
WMC FBomb
December 04, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger | Education, Feminism, Girls, Gloria Steinem, Media, Politics, Violence against women
The Anita Hill 20: Sexual Harassment and Teens
On October 15th, I had the honor of participating in the "Sex, Power and Speaking the Truth: Anita Hill 20 Years Later" conference. I spoke on an intergenerational panel that also featured speakers Ki...
WMC News & Features
August 15, 2011 | Shelby Knox | Feminism, Gloria Steinem
"Gloria: In Her Own Words"—Notes from a Young Feminist
Our twenty-something commentator appreciates the HBO documentary, but also wishes for a deeper treatment of WMC Cofounder Gloria Steinem's philosophy and activism.
WMC FBomb
May 04, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger | Feminism, Gloria Steinem, Politics
Your Feminist History Lesson For The Day: The ERA
When people are being really annoying about the whole "do we still need feminism" thing, I find it less effective to start listing the thousands of reasons why we do, and more effective to slam wh...
WMC News & Features
October 29, 2010 | Gloria Steinem | Economy, Gloria Steinem, Politics
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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