With a career spanning more than four decades, there is nothing Charlayne Hunter-Gault “hasn’t done, covered, said, influenced,” said Women’s Media Center President Carol Jenkins, introducing the ve...

If you want to connect with the 15 to 30 year old crowd, you’d better start inhabiting their world—the virtual one of MySpace, Facebook and Friendster, YouTube, and too many blogs to name.  Each is ...

Be cynical if you like, but this was one newscast that I would not miss—because it was the one I thought I’d never see in my lifetime. When Katie Couric debuted on the CBS network news, I was ther...

“Is there any way that we can stop this?” Regan Hofmann asked the Creative Director of POZ magazine the night before its April edition went to press. With the April issue, Hofmann officially came ou...

In the displacement of Lebanese civilians due to the current conflict, women are suffering the most, said Lina Abou-Habib, speaking from Beirut on a marathon broadcast by FIRE (Feminist Internationa...

Women in the highest paid sections of the communications and media industry face an average pay gap of $13,000 a year when compared to men, according to a new report. The Institute for Women’s Pol...

The largest sex discrimination class action lawsuit in U.S. history. Workers clamoring for fair and affordable healthcare. Community protests against Supercenters. In the battle to preserve its publ...

While Congress continues its tug of war over access to U.S. borders, the House Judiciary Committee is scheduled today to consider a bill to guarantee fair and open access for users of the Internet i...

Facing efforts to improve the dismal status of women and minority-group members in the New York Times newsroom of the 1970s, Abe Rosenthal resisted like an emperor who believes his power absolute. ...

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...

Why the media blackout on a major story from the Philippines? Filipino papers are not permitted to cover it? Whatever happened to free press in the west? On the 20th anniversary of the 1986 People...

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.