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WMC News & Features
February 04, 2020 | Lauren Wolfe | Arts and culture
SAG-AFTRA creates guidelines for film, TV ‘intimacy coordinators’

As of January 29, there is a code of conduct set in writing for how simulated sex scenes in movies and TV should be conducted.

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February 03, 2020 | Farha Khalidi | Media
Kotex is ditching blue liquid in their new ad campaign

This month, Kotex has initiated a new ad campaign that uses red fluid to simulate menstrual blood.

WMC Live
February 02, 2020 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #307: Elizabeth Holtzman. (Original Airdate 2/2/2020)

Robin on the Senate trial, part 2; WAPO’s sexist blunder; India’s feminist #MeetToSleep movement; and Mexico’s guerrilla glitter tactics. Guest: Former Congresswoman Liz Holtzman discusses what’s really happening in Washington—and what’s next.

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January 30, 2020 | Lauren Wolfe | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Girls and women face increased violence due to climate change

A study published Wednesday confirms “extensive direct links” between environmental pressures and gender-based violence.

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January 30, 2020 | Emily Wilson | Arts and culture
New film shows realities of working for a Weinstein-like boss

In creating the movie ”The Assistant,” writer/director Kitty Green interviewed more than 100 women who worked or had worked at Weinstein’s companies, as well as women at other studios and agencies.

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January 30, 2020 | Caitlin Cruz | Feminism
Midwives have always been involved in abortion care

As abortion protections have eroded across the country, countless health care providers have stepped out from behind their stethoscopes to talk about why abortion is an important part of reproductive health care.

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January 29, 2020 | Ashley Jordan | Sports, Violence against women
Why do we sanctify American 'heroes' even when they hurt women?

Bryant’s athletic prowess does not entitle him to the cultural benefit of the doubt, placing his protection over that of his alleged victim.

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January 27, 2020 | Farha Khalidi | Feminism
Women chefs are still struggling, no matter how ‘badass’ they are

Among the flagrantly gendered phrases mentioned — including “ballbuster,” “nurturing,” and “bitchy” — one seemingly positive term stood out: “badass.”

WMC Live
January 26, 2020 | Jessica McDiarmid | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #306: Jessica McDiarmid. (Original Airdate 1/26/2020)

Robin on the Senate trial, coronaviruses, the US ranking drop in gender equality, how Brexit will hurt women most, and a wicked mischief action that’s easy—even legal. Guest: Jessica McDiarmid on missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada.

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January 24, 2020 | Lauren Wolfe | Body image and body standards, Health
Corporate America finally accepts that women bleed red

A new ad campaign from feminine hygiene brand Kotex has decided that using blue liquid to demonstrate the efficacy of its menstruation products in commercials is outdated and, well, absurd.

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January 24, 2020 | Neha Madhira | Immigration, International
Women are leading protests against discriminatory legislation in India

The CAA’s language grants a legal path to citizenship for only some "persecuted minorities." Muslims, as well as groups like Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka, Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, and Buddhist refugees from Tibet, are all left out.

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January 23, 2020 | Rebecca Adamson | Economy, Environment, Jane Fonda
Protesting corporations does have an impact — here’s how!

As financial markets place more emphasis on companies’ social and environmental impact, the social risk created by large-scale protest can affect their bottom line.

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January 23, 2020 | Sophie Hayssen | Arts and culture
The Revolutionary Way ‘Little Women’ Portrays Self-Love

These characters’ journeys expose our culture’s ridiculous link between relationship status and total happiness

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January 22, 2020 | Lauren Wolfe | Feminism
Study: Women CEOs are twice as likely as men to divorce

A study out this month in the American Economic Journal says married women who reach the corporate pinnacle are twice as likely to be divorced three years after their promotion to CEO as compared to their male counterparts.

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January 22, 2020 | Grace Bloom | Media
Last year saw more depictions of abortion on TV than ever before

A recent study found that there was also an unprecedented number of discussions about abortion depicted on television — more than ever observed in a single year.

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January 19, 2020 | Lauren Wolfe | Feminism, Free Speech, Politics
Photos: Women’s Marchers put their anger at Trump on full display

Thousands of women repped the resistance front and center at the fourth annual Women’s March taking place in cities across the U.S. on Saturday.

WMC Live
January 19, 2020 | Gail Collins | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #305: Gail Collins. (Original Airdate 01/19/2020)

Robin on impeachment, Harvey Weinstein, endangered women mayors, wrestling, how things are getting better, and days-long orgies of same-sex box crabs. Guest: NY Times columnist Gail Collins on her new book about older women, No Stopping Us Now.

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January 17, 2020 | Farha Khalidi | Science and tech
The importance of women in sex tech

This year, CES allowed a female-led and oriented sex tech companies to appear at the show.

WMC News & Features
January 16, 2020 | Susan Buttenwieser | LGBTQIA, Politics
Trump’s attacks on LGBTQ rights underscore need for federal law

The House passed a comprehensive rights bill last year, but it died in the Senate. A new proposed compromise would ban discrimination — but with a major loophole.

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January 16, 2020 | Kadin Burnett | Arts and culture, Media
Women in film made history in 2019. So why weren’t they recognized?

2019 was a banner year for women in the entertainment industry. But female filmmakers are still unable to break the “celluloid ceiling.”

WMC News & Features
January 15, 2020 | Lauren Wolfe | Arts and culture
This week’s winners in the arts: men

It’s awards season. Which means it is again the time of year in which women realize they’ve been snubbed, blocked, ignored, skipped over…however you want to put it, it’s the season in which women are consistently losers to the patriarchy, and this year is no different.

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January 13, 2020 | Farha Khalidi | Environment, Feminism
Why are more women vegan than men?

Feminists have long linked oppressive gender dynamics to industrialized animal agriculture, noting that female animals and their reproductive organs are exploited for profit, under intensely inhumane conditions.

WMC News & Features
January 10, 2020 | Lauren Wolfe | Feminism, Politics
ERA hope diminishes as Trump administration blocks ratification

An opinion issued Wednesday from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel may scuttle an effort to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

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January 10, 2020 | Sophie Hayssen | Arts and culture, Media
Women directors are working more than ever, but aren't being recognized

No women were nominated in the category of Best Director at the Golden Globes even though there were more women-directed top-grossing movies in 2019 than in any year before.

WMC News & Features
January 09, 2020 | Lauren Wolfe | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Indian court sets hanging date for men convicted in Dehli gang rape

A court in India issued a death warrant Tuesday for four men convicted of gang-raping a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in 2012. They are set to be hanged on January 22.

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