Playwright Clare Barron's new work explores how girls and women often feel they can’t openly go after what they want.
Despite being a majority of ballet audience and donors, women are being denied opportunities in the field.
In an excerpt from Sarah Barnett’s interview on “Women’s Media Center Live With Robin Morgan,” which aired June 9 and is available by podcast at wmclive.com and other podcast platforms, Barnett talks about her work promoting women on screen and in TV’s executive suites.
Beyoncé’s choice to place Black womanhood at the center of her new Netflix documentary, Homecoming, is a powerful form of social resistance.
Before Stonewall, lesbians were all but invisible in media. Fifty years of activism and advocacy have made a remarkable impact.
Film festivals are being held more accountable for not showing enough work by female directors. Here’s how some of the major festivals are doing since the 5050x2020 pledge.
The ninth annual event showcased stories about women leaders as well as ordinary women who rise to meet the challenges in their own lives.
A new study shows that depictions of abortion on TV can dispel myths and destigmatize the experience.
According to a new study, there was an encouraging increase in diverse fictional depictions of abortion last year.
By chronicling how these allegations against Kelly have been an open secret in the entertainment industry for years, the series' director dream hampton exposes how both Hollywood and the United States legal system have essentially enabled Kelly’s abuse by ignoring it.
Hundreds of thousands of rape cases in the United States are stalled as the evidence kits remain untested, sometimes for years. The HBO documentary I Am Evidence sheds light on the impact on victims and survivors.
In its fifth year, the festival focused on the work of women cinematographers.
The work of Indian artist Shalinee Kumari, which is being shown at San Francisco's Asian Museum, promotes social change and women's empowerment.
Cooper's new book, Eloquent Rage, explores how women's anger can fuel social and political change.
Writer Asha French adds some missing context to the journey to self-acceptance shown in the Netflix movie.
Over the course of the past week, feminist activists on the internet and in the real world expressed outrage and frustration about the latest #MeToo development: Louis C.K.’s return to the public stage.
The latest report on diversity and inclusion in film shows little progress over the last 11 years. Marcie Bianco explores why there has been such stagnation, and what it will take to move the needle.
Women are taught that expressions of anger are unwelcome and unacceptable. Gadsby and Turner, each in her own way, are defying expectations.
With Straight White Men, which opens next week, Lee will become first Asian American woman playwright on Broadway.
A new film documents the extraordinary life of the Supreme Court justice who has become a cultural icon.
Three years after the launch of #OscarsSoWhite, activists are demanding Latinx inclusion.
The new Marvel blockbuster imagines an Africana womanhood impervious to the effects of colonialism.
After a highly regarded anthology of Irish poetry gave short shrift to women’s contributions, a group of poets took a stand for inclusion.
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.
Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday is one of the best in the business — and her feminist perspective on film and Hollywood is increasingly necessary these days.