The media reception of Febos’ new memoir has focused on the shock value of her decision to give up sex for a year, but the book offers surprising insights about community and feminism.
What if “your type” isn’t an unbiased, unalterable fact, but actually a socially acceptable way of reproducing injustice?
THE WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER hosted their 20th Anniversary WOMEN’S MEDIA AWARDS on June 5th at the JW Marriott Essex House Hotel in New York City. The WMC AWARDS were presented to outstanding leaders and champions for women in media. This year’s WMC 2025 Women’s Media Awards honorees were: Geralyn White Dreyfous, S. Mitra Kalita, Imani Perry, Erica Smiley, Jessica Valenti.
As WMC marks its 20th anniversary, presenters and awardees urge people to keep fighting against backlash and to find strength in community.
Women are all too often ignored at best and hurt or even killed at worst because of it.
Robin reports the realities of the lives endured by women and children refugees and migrants with her guest, Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Global Refuge—herself an immigrant.
The acclaimed film offers a vision of women characters whose strength is rooted in textured humanity.
Victims of military domestic violence are filing claims against the Pentagon for damage, injury, and death.
The growing movement to end period poverty has made great strides in recent years, and advocates all over the world continue to push for solutions.
Director, co-writer, and producer Rachel Feldman talked to WMC about the 12-year journey behind her new film, “Lilly,” which comes to theaters across the U.S. May 9.
The uptick in women traveling alone is fueled by increasing disposable incomes, availability of information on the internet, social media, and technology.
The stakes for our generation couldn't be higher, and you won't want to miss this.
Faculty and students are dealing with the fallout as colleges and universities capitulate to Trump-inspired attacks on free speech and academic inquiry.
Being in your twenties means watching everyone around you grow and blossom in completely different ways through trial and error, great choices, and huge mistakes.
Anti-abortion extremists are trying to revive an antiquated 19th-century law to block access to abortion, but new proposed legislation would weaken the law’s effect.
While vaginismus is relatively invisible to the general population, it has profound effects on the mental, emotional, and sexual well-being of those who experience it.
Closing the digital gender divide could open crucial paths to promote women’s well-being while offering economic prosperity in some of the world’s most underdeveloped nations.
Persistent pay discrepancies, which cost women workers hundreds of thousands of dollars, have increased in recent years.
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