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 News & Features
January 18, 2018 | Susan Buttenwieser | Gender-based violence, Immigration, International
Women, girls, and LGBTI people especially endangered by Trump move to end protections for Salvadoran immigrants

Thousands of people are feeling the immediate impact of the decision to force thousands of immigrants to leave the U.S.

WMC News & Features
January 18, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | Health, LGBTQIA, Politics
Trump administration gives ‘license to discriminate’ to health care providers

Today, the Trump administration established yet more barriers for women, LGBTQ people, and others to access the urgent care they need by providing additional protections to health care workers who refuse to provide treatment because of their moral or religious beliefs.

WMC FBomb
January 18, 2018 | Gabriel Leão | Arts and culture, Girls
Meet the 13-year-old rapper taking Brazil by storm

MC Soffia started to rap when she was only six years old. By 11, her name was well known in her native Brazil, and by 13, the artist was listed as one of BBC’s 100 Women of 2017.

WMC News & Features
January 17, 2018 Arts and culture, Media
Will uptick in women’s stories mean more Oscar nominations for women?

In a year when an unprecedented number of female producers brought stories about women to the big screen, Academy Award nominations could include more women than ever — but still, few women of color are likely to be up for awards.

WMC FBomb
January 17, 2018 | Kadin Burnett | Feminism
The role men must play in #MeToo

Men have only been surprised by #MeToo because they haven't been forced to confront the ways in which women’s lives are so frequently tinged with the feeling that they must defend themselves against men’s tendencies to sexualize them.

WMC FBomb
January 16, 2018 | Kalli Jackson | Arts and culture, Media
Oprah is great, but she should not run for President

Winfrey recently made headlines for her incredible acceptance speech at the Golden Globes. In fact, many seemed to think the speech set the stage for the media mogul’s future presidential run.

WMC Live
January 14, 2018 | Leah Greenberg | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #232: Leah Greenberg. (Original Airdate 1/14/2018)

2018 Premiere! Robin on the state of the world—and of Trump's mind, Orwellian speech, ongoing MeToo fallout, the rising electoral blue wave, and predictions for the future. Guest: Leah Greenberg, cofounder of Indivisible. Expanded Surrealism Corner.

WMC FBomb
January 12, 2018 | Chloe Hallinan | Feminism
Why ‘feminism’ was the word of the year

On December 12, Merriam-Webster declared that the word of 2017 was “feminism.” Their choice highlights not only our culture’s struggle to define the word “feminism” itself, but the way in which the movement the word represents played out in the spheres of politics and entertainment last year.

WMC Women Under Siege
January 11, 2018 | Rumbi Chakamba | Disability, Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women, WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
Women accused of witchcraft face assault and death in Tanzania

Each year, hundreds of people—most of them women—have been killed for being suspected witches. Rights activists say raising awareness and investing in development can help stop communities from turning on their elders.

WMC News & Features
January 10, 2018 | Sarita Gupta | Economy
Why women fight for $15 minimum wage

The U.S. federal minimum wage is just $7.25 per hour, and most states' under $9. Minimum-wage workers — more than two-thirds of whom are women — have made some gains, and this year their fight continues.

WMC FBomb
January 10, 2018 | Farha Khalidi | Arts and culture, Media
The allegations against Melanie Martinez ask us to re-examine rape culture

Those accused of misconduct, assault, and harassment have ranged from small actors to big-shot producers, but almost all were male. Almost, but not all: female singer Timothy Heller recently accused alternative pop singer Melanie Martinez of assaulting her.

WMC News & Features
January 08, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | Gender-based violence, Violence against women
Vets demonstrate in #MeTooMilitary protest; DoD expresses support

Close to 50 military veterans, service members, and their supporters gathered outside of the Pentagon for a #MeTooMilitary demonstration today. The protest came just hours after Sunday night’s Golden Globes ceremony.

WMC FBomb
January 08, 2018 | Roberta Nin Feliz | Health, Politics
Who is harmed most by Bronx fires

The one thing that characterized my childhood in the Bronx has been fire. Growing up there, it was clear that the borough hadn’t been, wasn’t, and perhaps never will be a priority for New York City officials.

WMC FBomb
January 05, 2018 | Lauren Davidson | LGBTQIA, Politics
How whistleblower and trans activist Chelsea Manning is moving forward

Since her release earlier this year, Manning has been speaking about issues like gender identity and surveillance in the press and at colleges and universities. On November 15, I had the chance to see her speak at Wesleyan University.

WMC News & Features
January 04, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | Feminism, International, Politics
U.S. ranks behind Saudi Arabia in representation of women in office, even as more women contemplate running here

While American women reach new milestones, including holding a record number of seats in the Senate, their representation in national legislative office still lags behind a hundred other countries, including falling two places below Saudi Arabia, which is notorious for its terrible treatment of women.

WMC News & Features
January 04, 2018 | Heather Watkins | Disability, WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
Republican lawmakers assault disability rights

The first year of the Trump administration has been marked by attacks, direct and indirect, on the rights of people with disabilities, including the latest — a bill to weaken the Americans with Disabilities Act.

WMC FBomb
January 03, 2018 | Holly Godfrey | Feminism
How I handled sexism in the service industry

Despite the way they treated me, none of the individuals I served could take away the power I still had — power I earned — at work.

WMC FBomb
January 02, 2018 | Angela Liu | Feminism
Looking back at the biggest feminist victories of 2017

Now that we’ve made it through 2017, it’s important to remember how much the feminist movement accomplished this past year even in the face of political adversity.

WMC Women Under Siege
January 02, 2018 | Marija Šajkaš | Feminism, International, Media
A look inside Syria’s emerging feminist media

Choosing journalism as a profession in Syria in the late 1990s was almost as unusual for a young girl as choosing to become a professional soccer player. “There were a lot of women studying media, but we already knew that we [would] not work as journalists,” said Rula Asad.

WMC FBomb
December 29, 2017 | Anonymous | Feminism, Gender-based violence
When your friend is accused of sexual assault

In trying to figure out what a feminist whose friend is accused of rape should do, I turn to the women who have already publicly responded to the men they know and trusted who were confronted with accusations of sexual misconduct.

WMC FBomb
December 28, 2017 | Gabriel Leão | International, Sports
Lucimar Medeiros is revolutionizing female wrestling in Brazil

Medeiros is the supervisor of the wrestling program at São Paulo’s Training and Research Olympic Center (Centro Olímpico de Treinamento e Pesquisa or COTP) in Brazil. She is also the first African-Brazilian woman to serve in this role.

WMC FBomb
December 27, 2017 | Julie Zeilinger | Politics
How young, black voters helped Doug Jones win

22-year-old Tyler Bryant, a senior at Alabama State University and president of the Alabama College Democrats, explains the efforts many students made on the ground to mobilize young voters and black voters to help Jones win.

WMC FBomb
December 26, 2017 | Julie Zeilinger | Free Speech, LGBTQIA
The Supreme Court is hearing a major case regarding LGBTQ+ rights

The Masterpiece Cakeshop case isn’t really about cake at all. It’s about discrimination. This case could potentially lead to legalizing discrimination against the LGBT+ community because a couple requested a wedding cake and was denied.

WMC News & Features
December 22, 2017 | Aviva Stahl | Gender-based violence, Immigration, Politics, Violence against women
Trump appointees are preventing raped, undocumented minors from obtaining abortions

In three cases of undocumented minors needing abortions, the government has argued that merely allowing the women to physically leave a detention facility would amount to facilitating their abortions, even though no one is asking the government to transport the women to clinics or to pay for their abortions.

WMC FBomb
December 22, 2017 | Eliana Stanislawski | Health, Politics, Science and tech
What the CDC’s banned words reveal about Trump’s agenda

Banning these particular words silences already marginalized Americans — especially women.

« 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