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WMC News & Features
April 06, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | Gender-based violence, Misogyny, Violence against women
New survey reports sexual harassment is rampant in fundraising world

A new survey offers an idea of just how extensive the issue of sexual harassment is in the philanthropy world.

WMC FBomb
April 06, 2018 | Roberta Nin Feliz | Feminism, International
The female revolutionary history forgot

Mama Tingó, a Black woman revolutionary who fought for working-class farmers, is seldom heard about or celebrated yet was crucial to Dominican history.

WMC News & Features
April 05, 2018 | Geneva Abdul | International, Sports
Women soccer players demand equity

Athletes all over the globe have been pushing for fair pay, but they have a long way to go.

WMC FBomb
April 04, 2018 | Farha Khalidi | Feminism
On the #MeToo backlash

With every successful movement inevitably comes backlash, and the #MeToo movement is no exception.

WMC News & Features
April 03, 2018 | Marianne Schnall | Politics
New coalition aims to elect more women

Women hold fewer than one-quarter of elected positions in the U.S. Eight top women's organizations are uniting to change this picture.

WMC FBomb
April 02, 2018 | Gabriel Leão | Arts and culture, International, Race/Ethnicity
An interview with Brazilian indigenous rapper and activist Kunumí MC

Kunumí MC is a teenage rapper calling attention to the struggles Indigenous people face in Brazil.

WMC FBomb
March 30, 2018 | Gabriel Leão | Arts and culture, Media
First Match: the story of a teen girl competing on an all-boys wrestling team

First Match (2018), the first feature film by writer-director Olivia Newman, tells the story of Monique a girl who competes on an all-boys wrestling team while simultaneously juggling the foster care system, school, and getting back in touch with her absent father.

WMC News & Features
March 29, 2018 | Yanick Rice Lamb | Media, Race/Ethnicity
50 years after the Kerner Commission, little progress for people of color in media

The commission found that lack of representation fueled media stereotypes and distortions. Half a century later, those stereotypes persist.

WMC News & Features
March 28, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | International, LGBTQIA
First transgender newscaster appears on Pakistani television

Pakistan’s first transgender news anchor has been hired by a local Pakistani television station, according to a story published Sunday by national English-language newspaper Dawn.

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March 27, 2018 | Kalli Jackson | Politics
Why we marched for our lives

I doubt that even years from now our world will be perfect, that all issues of violence will be solved. But I know I will no longer sit idly by when mass shootings kill kids. I will be able to look back and say that I did something.

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March 27, 2018 | Jessie Gill | Body image and body standards, Health
The truth about endometriosis and women’s pain

I recognize that discussing any intimate health topic (or vaginas in general) makes some people uncomfortable. But any worry I have about making people uncomfortable is overshadowed by my desire to advocate for all of the ladies I know suffering from endometriosis and to provide the information and insight I wish I had found years ago.

WMC News & Features
March 26, 2018 | Shauna Dillavou | Online harassment, Science and tech
Women-run Bumble to Silicon Valley: User safety is the new cool

Women-led tech makes us all safer — and it's good business.

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March 26, 2018 | Kadin Burnett | Arts and culture, Media
Guess Who?: #MeToo Edition

Sexual harassment is no laughing matter, but a recent Funny or Die sketch has managed to add some humor (dark though it may be) to the plague of sexual misconduct that spawned the #MeToo movement.

WMC Live
March 25, 2018 | Stacey Abrams, June Millington | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #242: Stacey Abrams, June Millington. (Original Airdate 3/25/2018)

Robin on Facebook's crash, Cambridge Analytica's pimp, Al Qaida's "feminine" drive, and women keeping men's secrets. Guests: Stacey Abrams, African-American feminist running for Georgia governor; June Millington, "godmother of women's rock 'n roll."

WMC Women Under Siege
March 23, 2018 | Hashem Osseiran |
How sectarianism can help explain the Syrian war

The Syrian war is not a clean-cut sectarian conflict as some would suggest. However, a study of sectarian trends and dynamics can illuminate some overlooked aspects of the war, says Fabrice Balanche of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.

WMC News & Features
March 22, 2018 | Rebecca McCray | Health, Politics
'US is a pro-life nation,' says Trump appointee at UN meeting

At a recent closed-door meeting, Bethany Kozma stood before a roomful of international leaders assembled to discuss gender equality and women’s rights and announced that the “U.S. is a pro-life nation.”

WMC FBomb
March 22, 2018 | Julie Zeilinger | Free Speech, Politics
Lizz Winstead on the new SCOTUS case taking on Crisis Pregnancy Centers

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard the first oral arguments in a crucial case targeting Crisis Pregnancy Centers. Lizz Winstead of Lady Parts Justice explains why this case is so important.

WMC FBomb
March 21, 2018 | Sarah Landrum | Feminism
How to revolutionize a professional world that’s made for men

Here are some of the hardships you could encounter in the workplace and the best methods for overcoming them.

WMC News & Features
March 20, 2018 | Erika Soto Lamb |
Has the NRA met its match in Emma González and other youth leaders?

The momentum leading into this weekend's March for Our Lives could signal a shift in the movement against gun violence.

WMC News & Features
March 20, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | Health, Politics
Judge grants temporary order to block strictest abortion ban in U.S.

On Monday, Mississippi's governor signed a new bill into law that prohibits abortion after 15 weeks, making Mississippi the strictest state in the country for women who want to terminate unwanted pregnancies. Just before noon today, a district judge granted a temporary restraining order requested by the state's lone clinic.

WMC Women Under Siege
March 20, 2018 | Christobel Hastings | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
#IWillGoOut: Undoing a narrative of fear for women in India

Indian women are reclaiming their sense of safety in public spaces and taking on the patriarchy...one nap at a time.

WMC FBomb
March 19, 2018 | Ankita Devasia | Feminism
These young female activists are changing the world

In light of women’s history month, it’s important to recognize and reflect on the successes of powerful young women. Indeed, much can be learned from how young female activists are using their voices to change the world.

WMC Live
March 18, 2018 | Nina L. Khrushcheva | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #241: Nina Khrushcheva. (Original Airdate 3/18/2018)

Robin on sexism and pop music, the high-school protests, ageism and lowering the age to vote—and reversing the arrow of time?! Guest: Nina Khrushcheva on Putin's real motives and how current US policy aids and abets him. Plus Surrealism Corner!

WMC News & Features
March 16, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | Gender-based violence, Race/Ethnicity, Violence against women
Forty percent of employees in Bureau of Indian Affairs report being harassed

About 40 percent of employees in the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) report experiencing some kind of harassment, one the highest rates of all agencies in the Interior Department.

WMC News & Features
March 16, 2018 Media, Race/Ethnicity
A Conversation with Benét Wilson

The last in a series of interviews with women journalists of color from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “The Status of Women of Color in the U.S. News Media 2018.”

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