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WMC News & Features
March 15, 2018 | Marianne Schnall | Health
If you think voters are divided on abortion, think again

A new approach has revealed that most pollsters may be asking the wrong questions on abortion.

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March 15, 2018 | Gabriel Leão | International
This Syrian teen is using social media to put a face to war

17-year-old Najem, who resides in a suburban area in southwestern Syria that surrounds the city of Damascus, has been documenting the Syrian Civil War through his Twitter account since December 7, 2017. The teen posts photos, videos, and messages that capture what it’s like to be one of the many children and teenagers forced to fight to survive in the middle of the war.

WMC News & Features
March 15, 2018 Media, Race/Ethnicity
A Conversation with Maria Hinojosa

The fifth 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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March 14, 2018 | Abigail Gordy | Politics
Today there's a national school walkout. Maybe this time will be different.

The teen victims of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting quickly coalesced into a movement: They used the hashtag #NeverAgain to share their experiences on Twitter and made their message clear to mainstream media, too.

WMC News & Features
March 14, 2018 Media, Race/Ethnicity
A Conversation with Jenni Monet

The fourth 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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March 12, 2018 | Kayleigh Bolingbroke | Feminism
This women's history month we're celebrating the women who nevertheless, persisted

Each year, the National Women’s History Project (NWHP), an organization dedicated to honoring and preserving women’s history, chooses a theme for Women’s History Month. The theme this March is a feminist rallying cry that dates back to last year: “Nevertheless, She Persisted.”

WMC News & Features
March 11, 2018 Media, Race/Ethnicity
A Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones

The third 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.”

WMC News & Features
March 11, 2018 | Mitra Kalita | Media, Race/Ethnicity
A Conversation with Mitra Kalita

The second 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.”

WMC Live
March 11, 2018 | Helen LaKelly Hunt, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #240: Kimberle Crenshaw and Rhanda Dormeus, Helen LaKelly Hunt. (Original Airdate 3/11/2018)

Robin on striking teachers, marching students, cranky nuns, and defining "articulate." Guests: Kimberlé Crenshaw and Rhanda Dormeus on "Say Her Name" activism; Helen LaKelly Hunt on her book about erasure of early 19th-century feminists of faith.

WMC News & Features
March 09, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | Economy, Media, Politics
Women losing ever more pay as wage gap grows

The last decade saw the slowest progress on closing the gender wage gap in nearly 40 years, according to a report released Wednesday.

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March 09, 2018 | Julie Graves | Education
Why young women need to learn about money

Growing up, women are taught how to flirt with men and make ourselves appear softer, smaller, and nonthreatening. We are generally not taught about work and money.

WMC News & Features
March 08, 2018 Media, Race/Ethnicity
A Conversation with Joy-Ann Reid

The first 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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March 08, 2018 | Ella Hague | Body image and body standards, Feminism, Girls
My thighs and exactly what is wrong with them

Sexist dress codes are yet another way our society sexualizes young women and tells them that they need to modify their bodies to prevent other people's discomfort.

WMC Women Under Siege
March 06, 2018 | Ayesha Ahmad | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Afghan women will only be ‘empowered’ when they are free from violence

Many international donors want to invest in Afghan women’s economic potential. But the country needs to transform its entire gender infrastructure to really change women’s lives, writes Ayesha Ahmad.

WMC News & Features
March 05, 2018 | Andrea L Pino-Silva | Violence against women
From the red carpet to the dorm room, survivors take the lead

This year's Oscars ceremony showed both how far we've come and how far we have to go in the movement against sexual assault.

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March 05, 2018 | Chloe Hallinan | International
Examining my privilege as an American studying abroad in Paris

I have found myself critically examining elements of my own privilege as an American from a metropolitan area that I had previously taken for granted.

WMC Live
March 04, 2018 | Masih Alinejad, Charlotte Gordon | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #239: Charlotte Gordon, Masih Alinejad. (Original Airdate 3/4/2018)

Robin on the hidden history of the Second Amendment, Hope Hicks, sexism at the BBC, Boko Haram's return, and China's Winnie the Pooh. Guests: Charlotte Gordon on the feminist origins of "Frankenstein"; Masih Alinejad on women's uprising in Iran.

WMC News & Features
March 02, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | Gender-based violence, LGBTQIA, Media
Little news coverage given to anti-LGBTQ violence, despite increasingly deadly toll

LGBTQ murders went up 86 percent in 2017, but remain vastly under-covered in cable and broadcast TV.

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March 02, 2018 | Tharwa Boulifi | Education
The problem with gender segregation in childhood

Many educational institutions in Tunisia — especially those in rural areas, where people are generally more conservative and traditional — separate girls and boys from each other within the same class so that female students won’t mix with the male students.

WMC News & Features
March 01, 2018 | Jessica Montoya Coggins | Arts and culture, Media, Race/Ethnicity
The Latinx Community Protests Hollywood

Three years after the launch of #OscarsSoWhite, activists are demanding Latinx inclusion.

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February 27, 2018 | Lauren Davidson | Politics
Why the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School teen activists are so important

The February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School may be the tragic event that finally leads to the change this country needs to finally address gun control.

WMC News & Features
February 26, 2018 | Asha French | Arts and culture
Viewing “Black Panther” through a “Black women” lens

The new Marvel blockbuster imagines an Africana womanhood impervious to the effects of colonialism.

WMC Women Under Siege
February 26, 2018 | Annie Hylton | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Study: 85 percent of Yazidi women interviewed describe unethical journalism practices

In a new report, a troubling pattern in which journalists paid little mind to ethics and consent when interviewing survivors of sexualized violence emerges.

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February 26, 2018 | Emma Gray | Feminism, Politics
A Girl's Guide to Joining the Resistance

The fight against injustice will always be long and often discouraging. The only way to persist is to choose a cause you feel that your life—and the lives of others—depends on, one you can speak to from (for lack of a better, less cheesy phrase) the heart.

WMC Live
February 25, 2018 | Catherine Kerrison, Pascale Lamche | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #238: Catherine Kerrison, Pascale Lamche. (Original Airdate 2/25/2018)

Robin on new anti-NRA tactics; both former "Playmate" and porn star joining MeToo against Trump; breast-feeding in Congress—and KFC?!? Guests: Catherine Kerrison on Jefferson's daughters—two white, one black; Pascale Lamche's Mandela film "Winnie."

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