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WMC News & Features
December 21, 2017 | Rikki Rogers | Media
2017: The year in “empowerment marketing”

How have advertisers responded to this year's shifts in gender politics?

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December 21, 2017 | Farha Khalidi | Gender-based violence, Girls
Cyntoia Brown’s case reveals a larger truth about child sex trafficking

While it is great that Brown’s case has been spotlighted, it is also important to realize that her story is symptomatic of a larger issue: the criminalization of child sex trafficking victims.

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December 20, 2017 | Chloe Hallinan | Politics
What white women’s votes for Roy Moore mean

Despite the accusations of sexual assault and molestation made against Alabama Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Roy Moore, as well as the racist and anti-semitic comments he made — like his claim that America was great during slavery — nearly two-thirds of white women voted for him.

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December 19, 2017 | Anonymous | Feminism
Is campus hookup culture actually empowering?

With hookup culture come types of behavior and a set of expectations perhaps just as repressive to college women as any of the traditional gender norms or societal gender roles entrenched in our communities and institutions.

WMC Women Under Siege
December 18, 2017 | Natalia Bonilla | Gender-based violence, Girls, International, Violence against women
In small-town Colombia, a group empowers girls one bike at a time

Niñas sin Miedo, or Girls Without Fear, works to promote human rights by educating young girls on sexualized violence and offering conferences and workshops on teen pregnancy prevention, sexual abuse, and harassment. It also empowers the girls by teaching them to ride bikes together.

WMC News & Features
December 14, 2017 | Lisalyn R. Jacobs | Education, Gender-based violence
Rollback of Title IX and campus sexual assault protections moves to Congress

A House of Representatives committee has approved a bill that builds on the Trump administration’s erosion of Title IX.

WMC Women Under Siege
December 14, 2017 | Lauren Wolfe | Gender-based violence, Girls, International, Violence against women
Justice served in major Congo rape case, but danger isn’t over yet

This is the first time a mastermind of mass rape has been held legally responsible in DRC. But the story doesn’t end here. There are still a few major issues to watch.

WMC Women Under Siege
December 13, 2017 | Lauren Wolfe | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
MP and militiamen convicted of crimes against humanity for rapes of nearly 50 girls in Kavumu

Today a historic conviction came down in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It was the first time an official or commander has been convicted of masterminding rape in the country.

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December 13, 2017 | Camryn Garrett | Feminism, Media
White women were recognized in Hollywood this year, but what about women of color?

As a woman of color, I feel like I have to make a choice when I watch movies. Critically acclaimed movies made by and about women don’t completely allow me to see myself.

WMC News & Features
December 11, 2017 | DeAnne Cuellar | Free Speech, Media
Save Net Neutrality! It enables women and people of color to thrive online and amplify their own stories—uncensored and on their own terms

As a crucial FCC vote nears, a broad coalition is mobilizing to keep an open Internet in the United States.

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December 11, 2017 | Julie Graves | Body image and body standards
How going to a women’s college changed how I dress

Many women at women’s colleges dress in a way that transcends gender, in ways that do not align with societal expectations of how women are supposed to look. Our individual styles go beyond gendered expectations.

WMC Live
December 10, 2017 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #231: Special Holiday Show. (Original Airdate 12/10/2017)

Special Holiday Solstice Show: For relief from 2017's traumatic news, an all poetry program with Robin reading from her work, including the world premiere of poems from her new book, Dark Matter, forthcoming spring 2018 (Spinifex Press).

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December 08, 2017 | Farha Khalidi | Economy, Feminism
The truth about women who “choose” to leave the workforce

While women are entering the workforce more than ever before, they do so in a culture that still expects them to be mothers and doesn’t give them the resources or support to do both.

WMC News & Features
December 07, 2017 | Frances Nguyen | Health
Supreme Court will weigh challenge by “crisis pregnancy centers”

Anti-abortion advocates are using a "free speech" argument to try to skirt a reproductive health law.

WMC Women Under Siege
December 06, 2017 | Amanda Sperber | Gender-based violence, Girls, Health, International, Violence against women
The night shift: Joining an ambulance ride for raped women

A call comes in at 4:58 p.m. The night shift hasn’t yet started, so the day team that has been working since 7 in the morning goes out. We leave at 5:30. There’s no explicit rush. The 11-year-old isn’t bleeding.

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December 06, 2017 | Hannah Bristol | Politics
What it took to get record youth voter turnout in Virginia this year

This year in Virginia, we had a slate of really compelling, diverse, young candidates who were more representative of Virginians than I think the usual slates of candidates are. We were excited about helping get them elected.

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December 05, 2017 | Kayleigh Bolingbroke | International, Race/Ethnicity
Is the royal engagement really a symbol of progress?

Meghan Markle will be the first nonwhite woman ever to marry into the British monarchy. But is this fact a point of progress, or does the frenzy surrounding Markle’s race just further reinforce harmful stereotypes surrounding beauty and colorism?

WMC Women Under Siege
December 04, 2017 | Melissa Prax | Feminism, Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Men in India are still legally allowed to rape their wives. But women are fighting back.

In India, it’s now illegal for a man to have sex with his wife if she is under the age of 18. But anti-rape activists in India are looking at the next fight ahead of them: making the rape of adult women in marriage illegal.

WMC Live
December 03, 2017 | Heidi Hartmann, Rafia Zakaria | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #230: Heidi Hartmann, Rafia Zakaria. (Original Airdate 12/3/2017)

Robin on real-life solutions to workplace sexual abuse. Guests: Heidi Hartmann of the Institute for Women's Policy Research on the need for more women economists; columnist Rafia Zakaria on what Global South women actually want from "development."

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November 30, 2017 | Julie Zeilinger | Health, International
Combatting the disproportionate rate of HIV infection among young women

There is disproportionate rate of HIV infection among young women in sub-Saharan Africa. Here's what you need to know ahead of World AIDS Day.

WMC News & Features
November 29, 2017 | Susan Buttenwieser | Disability, Economy, Health, Politics, WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
GOP tax plan targets women, people with disabilities, and 13 million people who will lose health care

The Republican bill is one step closer to becoming law.

WMC News & Features
November 29, 2017 | Rebecca McCray | Health, Politics, Religion
Trump is remaking the federal judiciary in his own image, and it’s very white, very Republican, and very male

As the administration continues to absorb legal blowback and fight cases in federal courts, Trump has quietly pushed ahead with his mission to remake the federal judiciary in his image: one that is very white, very Republican, and very male.

WMC News & Features
November 27, 2017 | Lynn Melnick | Free Speech
Shame on me: My time in Amazon's penalty box

Why is a woman's truth-telling about sexual violence considered “adult content”?

WMC Women Under Siege
November 27, 2017 | Annie Hylton |
What is the media’s role in covering mass atrocities?

For decades, the Rohingya have endured chronic discrimination, including violence, restrictions on freedom of movement, and renunciation of citizenship, making them the world’s largest stateless group. So why has the media remained relatively silent until this new crisis, and what does that mean for those who are suffering?

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November 27, 2017 | Kadin Burnett | Arts and culture
In praise of Rihanna's Fenty Beauty

In the context of a market that has long failed to provide products for countless potential customers of color, Rihanna created products featuring myriad tones that embrace a diverse array of skin types.

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