Women’s Media Center
  • Sign Up
  • About
  • Press
  • Donate
  • Menu
  • Search
Women’s Media Center
All Categories
Women's Media Center
All Categories
  • Reports
    • About

      The Women’s Media Center’s research and reports shed a light on the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in the media.

      More »

    • Status of Women in the U.S. Media
    • Reports and Research
    • Infographics
    • Categories

      • Arts and culture
      • Health
      • Media
      • Politics
    • Back
    • Status of Women in the U.S. Media
    • Reports and Research
    • Infographics
  • Articles
    • About

      WMC publishes original reporting and commentary on headline stories and underreported topics.

      More »

    • Articles
    •  
    •  
    • Categories

      • Feminism
      • International
      • Media
      • Politics
    • Back
    • Articles
  • Podcast
    • About

      WMC Live with Robin Morgan is a weekly radio show and podcast in 110 countries around the globe.

      More »

    • WMC Live
    • WMC Live on iTunes
    •  
    • Categories

      • Feminism
      • Misogyny
      • Politics
      • Robin Morgan
    • Back
    • WMC Live
    • WMC Live on iTunes
  • Experts
    • About

      WMC SheSource is an online database of media-experienced women experts who we connect to journalists, bookers and producers.

      More »

    • Find an Expert
    • Apply to WMC SheSource
    • Journalist Sign Up
    • Areas of Expertise

      • Business and the Economy
      • Media and Entertainment
      • Politics
      • Social justice
    • Back
    • Find an Expert
    • Apply to WMC SheSource
    • Journalist Sign Up
  • Training
    • About

      The Women’s Media Center (WMC) media training and leadership programs seek to elevate women’s voices through media training.

      More »

    • Progressive Women's Voices
    • PWV Alumnae
    • Other Training
    • Back
    • Progressive Women's Voices
    • PWV Alumnae
    • Other Training
  • Speech
    • About

      WMC Speech Project is dedicated to raising public and media awareness about online harassment.

      More »

    • Articles
    • Online Abuse 101
    • Resources
    • Categories

      • Education
      • Feminism
      • Misogyny
      • Online harassment
    • Back
    • Articles
    • Online Abuse 101
    • Resources
  • More Links
    • Back
    • Sign Up
    • About
    • Press
    • Donate
    • Connect
    • Events
    • Privacy Policy
  •  
  • About
  • Apply for WMC SheSource
  • Articles
    • Pitch our editor
  • Board
  • Climate
  • Contact
  • Donate
  • Editorial
  • Events
  • Experts for Media
  • Facebook
  • FBomb
    • Pitch our editor
  • Features
    • Pitch our editor
  • Gloria Steinem
  • Home Page
  • I/DARE
    • Pitch our editor
  • Infographics
  • International
  • Jane Fonda
  • Journalist Sign up
  • Name it Change it
  • Pitch us
  • Podcast
  • Press Room
    • Press releases
    • Press contact
    • Press kit
  • Privacy policy
  • Progressive Women's Voices
  • Publications
  • Radio show
  • Research
  • Reports
  • Robin Morgan
  • SheSource
    • Apply to WMC SheSource
    • Sign up for journalist newsletter
  • Sources for journalists
  • Speech Project
    • Pitch our editor
  • Statistics
  • Status of women in media reports
  • Subscribe
    • WMC News
    • WMC Live
    • WMC SheSource Journalist email
  • Training
  • Twitter
  • Unspinning the Spin
  • WMC Live
  • Women Under Siege
    • Pitch our editor
  • Women's Media Awards
  • Write for us
  • WMC LOREEN ARBUS JOURNALISM PROGRAM
WMC Live
April 09, 2023 | Jane Manning, Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #405: Eclectic Solutions to VAW. (Original Airdate 4/9/2023)
Robin's commentaries range from animal models of reverence for elders to the declining church population in the US. Guest: Jane Manning, former prosecutor on sex crimes and violence against women, and director of the Women's Equal Justice Project.
WMC Climate
April 07, 2023 | Sidney Coles | Environment
Pipeline Fight Puts Indigenous People in Canada at Risk

At the 2021 Climate Summit in Glasgow, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared that Canada “would take a leadership role in the fight against climate change.”

WMC News & Features
April 05, 2023 | Laura Rena Murray | Health
The Consequences of Forced Birth

Despite what reactionary judges assert, forced birth does not result in significantly more infants being adopted. For too many of these children, their future lies in foster care.

WMC FBomb
March 30, 2023 | Cate Bikales | Violence against women
Rape Survivors And Experts On Preventing College Campus Sexual Violence

We need to give students these lessons earlier so that, when they go to college, it’s not the first time they’re hearing it.

WMC FBomb
March 27, 2023 | Gopiga D. | Feminism
Meet the Founder of the Nation's First Menstrual Hub

Lynette Medley is the founder and CEO of No More Secrets MBS, a nonprofit organization through which she has opened up the nation’s first menstrual hub and uterine wellness center.

WMC IDAR/E
March 26, 2023 | Mariana Martínez Barba | Feminism
The Untold Story of the Latin Women’s Collective

In a sea of leftist groups often challenged by toxic masculinity, activist working-class women created their own space in New York.

WMC Live
March 26, 2023 | Debora Spar, Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #404: Rethinking Thinking. (Original Airdate: 3/26/2023)

Robin takes a dive into redefinitions of concepts we think we already know—from Buddhist nuns and kung fu to time itself. Special Guest: Debora Spar, expert on technology, future societies, and women.

WMC Climate
March 24, 2023 | Lauren Wolfe | Environment
'Vampiric Overconsumption' — How Humans Are Depleting Our Water Supply

It’s not often you hear the word “vampiric” coming out of a U.N. secretary-general’s mouth. But on Wednesday, Secretary-General António Guterres said at the U.N. Water Conference in New York that countries “are draining humanity’s lifeblood through vampiric overconsumption and unsustainable use” of water. Lengthy droughts are also wreaking havoc.

WMC News & Features
March 23, 2023 | Shaistha Khan | Arts and culture, International
Artists Decolonizing Colonial Depictions of Women from the Middle East and North Africa

“The Postcard Women’s Imaginarium” is a project that uses women's artwork to offer an alternative narrative to colonial-era postcards that framed MENA women as “exotic.”

WMC FBomb
March 21, 2023 | Sophie Hayssen | Politics
Two Women Are Leading Italian Politics Right Now

Italian politics are at a fork in the road with women leading the way on either side.

WMC FBomb
March 20, 2023 | Regiane Folter | Feminism
Spain Passed Landmark Gender Equality Laws

In February, Spain’s parliament passed a series of laws that brought many improvements to women’s and transgender people’s lives.

WMC Live
March 19, 2023 | Deeyah Khan, Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #403: Corporate "Feminism" and Violence. (Original Airdate 3/19/2023)
Robin unmasks the slick public-relations "corporatization" of feminism, and exposes its cruel realities. Special Guest: award-winning documentary filmmaker Deeyah Khan and her new film, Behind the Rage: America's Domestic Violence.
WMC Climate
March 17, 2023 | Lauren Wolfe | Environment
Can Seaweed Save Us?

As countries continue to innovate ways to battle climate change, there is a new, related “slimy arms race” afoot. (Credit to The New York Times for the “slimy arms race” phrasing.) It seems that seaweed, in all its slippery glory, is a multifaceted, under-tapped, and potentially powerful weapon that can be used a number of ways in the ongoing fight to slow or stop global warming.

WMC FBomb
March 17, 2023 | Celeste Huang-Menders | Free Speech
Women Journalists Still Experience Online Harassment

Online trolling, harassment, and hate campaigns targeting female journalists persist all over the world.

WMC News & Features
March 16, 2023 | Marcie Bianco, Ph.D. | Girls, Politics, Sports
When It Comes to Trans Sports Bans, Don’t Be Fooled by the Language of ‘Protection’

Currently, 18 states ban trans girls from participating in girls’ sports. Often framed as offering “fairness” or “protection,” these insidious laws actually harm all women.

WMC FBomb
March 14, 2023 | Riya Janardhan | Feminism
Why Equal Pay Day Matters

When this day eventually advances to December 31st of the previous year, we will know that the barriers for women to advance in their careers have been mostly removed, disparities have been reduced, and parity in pay has finally been achieved.

WMC Live
March 12, 2023 | Jimmy Carter, Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #402: The Peanut-Farmer Champion. (Original Airdate 3/12/2023)

As former President Jimmy Carter enters hospice care at 98, Robin delivers a tribute show to him, stressing his post-presidency activism and strong support for feminism, and highlighting their exclusive and extraordinary 2014 conversation.

WMC Climate
March 10, 2023 | Kavitha Yarlagadda | Environment
Women Farmers in India Are Shifting to Natural Farming

Khambampati Rama Devi mixes cow dung, cow urine, soil, and jaggery, creating a mixture called jeevamrutam. She then sprays the brown concoction on her cotton crop.

WMC News & Features
March 08, 2023 | Dana Rubin | Free Speech, Media
Reclaiming Women’s Public Voice

When we discount the role of women speakers in U.S. history, we lose out on the diverse mix of voices and views that got us to this point — and we miss out on the knowledge of an inspirational past.

WMC FBomb
March 07, 2023 | Neha Madhira | Feminism, International
How Afghan Women Are Faring After the Taliban Struck Down Their Education Rights

Since the Taliban seized control of Kabul in August 2021, the rights and freedoms of Afghans have been violated.

WMC Live
March 05, 2023 | Margot Wallström, Robin Morgan | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #401: A Feminist Europe?! (Original Airdate 3/5/2023)
Robin explores what a "feminist Europe" would look like, and interviews returning special guest Margot Wallström, former (proudly proclaimed) feminist Deputy Prime Minister and Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs.
WMC Women Under Siege
March 01, 2023 | Katelyn Buckles | Gender-based violence, Girls, International, Religion, Violence against women
Women Tortured in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries Looked to the UN for Justice. They’re Still Looking.

In October, the United Nations Committee Against Torture issued a final decision in Elizabeth Coppin v. Ireland that once again dashed hopes of justice for survivors of one of Ireland’s worst regimes of torture and abuse.

WMC FBomb
February 27, 2023 | Sophie Hayssen | Girls, Health
Teen Girls Are Experiencing A Mental Health Crisis

A recent U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey is making headlines for its shocking findings on teens’ declining mental health.

WMC Climate
February 24, 2023 | Lauren Wolfe | Environment
How Fossil Fuel Companies Benefit from the War in Ukraine

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of people have died, countless numbers have been forcibly taken to Russia, and nearly 1,600 Ukrainian cultural sites and churches have been purposefully destroyed. But there is another potentially catastrophic fallout from the war that is less talked about.

WMC News & Features
February 22, 2023 | Susan Buttenwieser | Health
Access to Medication Abortion to Be Ruled On by Trump-Appointed Judge

Providers are gearing up for a possible ban on one of the two drugs used in medication abortion, as an anti-abortion group's lawsuit is expected to be decided this week.

« Previous Page | Next Page »
Categories
  • All Categories
  • Arts and culture
  • Body image and body standards
  • Disability
  • Economy
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Feminism
  • Free Speech
  • Gender-based violence
  • Girls
  • Gloria Steinem
  • Health
  • Immigration
  • International
  • Jane Fonda
  • LGBTQIA
  • Media
  • Misogyny
  • Online harassment
  • Politics
  • Race/Ethnicity
  • Religion
  • Robin Morgan
  • Science and tech
  • Sports
  • Violence against women
  • WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
  • Connect
  • Events
  • Privacy Policy
  • Sign Up
  • • powered by feminism