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January 23, 2014 | Contessa Gayles |
New Visibility for “the Work That Makes All Other Work Possible"
Because it’s labeled ‘women’s work,‘ it’s devalued,” says one activist. But thanks to a decades-long grassroots movement, three states have enacted protections for domestic workers. As the movement grows in other states, advocates look to lessons learned in New York, Hawaii, and California.
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January 15, 2014 | Kate Rounds |
Media
Keeping the Spotlight on Abortion Rights
Lizz Winstead keeps finding new ways to raise awareness of, and money for, the fight for reproductive rights.
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January 08, 2014 | Katti Gray |
Shedding New Light on Race and the Movies
Several notable films featuring black lead characters garnered much media attention in 2013. But a new study of 500 films takes a deeper look at who audiences are seeing on screen—and how that is affected by who is behind the camera.
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Global Feminism in One Place? It’s Possible!
An innovative new project is giving feminists worldwide the tools to be visible, connected, and more powerful.
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The Winter Holiday War: It’s Older Than You Think
In the midst of media-fed notions of a “war on Christmas,” let us remember that mid-winter holidays have a long and rich history, and that the season belongs to all of us.
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December 11, 2013 | Robin Morgan |
International
The Major News Story Nobody’s Running
A new policy proposal to the UN threatens to undo decades of progress in the fight against prostitution. Robin Morgan asks: Why isn’t this considered news?
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December 04, 2013 | Emily Wilson |
Arts and culture
Cultural History Meets Multimedia: Stories of Chinese Women Immigrants
Two new works by dancer and choreographer Lenora Lee give a new perspective on human trafficking, past and present.
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A Personal Interview with Mazie Hirono, Hawaii’s First Woman Senator
In an excerpt from Hirono’s interview on “Women’s Media Center Live With Robin Morgan,” which aired November 23 and is available by podcast at wmclive.com and iTunes, Senator Hirono talks about the women who have inspired her, and her commitment to support other women in politics.
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Where Are All the Young Feminists? Meet the Girls of Generation Now
In the midst of media-perpetuated victim-blaming surrounding the highly publicized sexual assaults and cyberbullying young women have suffered from Maryville to Steubenville, a group of New York City teens are using theatre to raise awareness and take a stand against slut-shaming in schools.
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November 13, 2013 | Holly Kearl |
Second-Ever City Council Hearing on Street Harassment
In Philadelphia, anti-street harassment activists are teaming up with the City Council to take action.
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November 06, 2013 | Mary Ann Swissler |
Violence against women
Using Student-Made Films to Confront Campus Sexual Assault
Student filmmakers and their professors at five far-flung colleges have united to create a diverse collection of short films to promote campus sexual assault awareness and prevention. So far, the films have reached 400 additional schools, and counting.
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October 30, 2013 | Soraya Chemaly |
International
Do We Really Want to Talk About Mass Surveillance?
As U.S. activists protest against NSA rights violations, we should bear in mind that Saudi women are all too familiar with the surveillance state.
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October 23, 2013 | Marianne Schnall |
Media
Honoring Game Changers at the Women's Media Awards
More than 400 people gathered in New York to honor and celebrate women who are making themselves and other women visible and powerful in media.
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A Unique Film From Saudi Arabia
Haifaa Al-Mansour reflects on her new feature film, Wadjda; the unusual challenges involved in making it; and the impact of telling a story from the perspective of a ten-year-old girl in Saudi Arabia.
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October 09, 2013 | Amy Richards |
MAKERS Asks (and Answers): Where Are the Women?
Eight months after its premiere, "MAKERS: Women Who Make America" continues its dramatic growth as a multimedia project chronicling the modern U.S. women’s movement. It received the Multi-Media Award for Ground-Breaking Contribution to Women, History, and America at the Women’s Media Center Awards Gala in New York this week. Amy Richards—who is writing a book about MAKERS—will appear as a guest on “Women’s Media Center Live with Robin Morgan” on October 10.
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October 02, 2013 | Saru Jayaraman |
Economy
“Living Off Tips”: Restaurant Workers Campaign for a Living Wage
As the effort to raise the federal minimum wage gathers momentum, the author, co-founder of a restaurant workers’ advocacy group, reports on a campaign to raise awareness about an often-overlooked piece of the story—the subminimum wage for tipped workers.
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August 01, 2013 | Ellen Bravo |
Why Work-Family Policies Are a Women’s Issue—and More
The lack of family-friendly policies in the United States is rooted in the undervaluation of women and women’s work. Too many workplaces still operate as if the workforce is comprised of men with a wife at home full-time to raise the kids—in spite of the fact that the majority of families with children have every parent in the workforce.
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July 11, 2013 | Robin Morgan |
Sports
Cry Foul at Wimbledon
Some media outlets proclaimed that this week's Wimbledon winner was the first from Britain in 77 years. In saying so, they erased not one, but four, female champions.
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Action Alert & Interview Transcript: Saudi Activist Women Facing Jail for Bringing Abused Woman Food
Two Saudi women’s rights activists, Wajeha Al-Huwaider and Fawzia Al-Oyouni, have been sentenced to 10 months in prison plus a two-year travel ban thereafter—for “encouraging" a French Canadian woman "to defy" her allegedly abusive Saudi husband.
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African Women Lead: A Pan African Dream
Africans cannot sacrifice democracy for economic gain for the few and pittance for the many. The author—a New Yorker born in Nairobi—says paternalistic male leadership must come to an end, and women lead instead.
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The Power of Mothers: A History of Disappearance
In Juárez, mothers of disappeared and murdered daughters from the last two decades are following in a long tradition of Latin American mothers who have taken to the streets to protest the disappearance of their children.
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Delivering the News—Ghana’s "Maternal Health Channel"
Expectant mothers and their caregivers in Ghana can now look to the airwaves for critically important information.
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B-Girl Event Celebrates Women in Hip Hop
In San Diego last month, b-girls and graffiti artists danced and painted their way into what is generally an all-male world.
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Yangon Bakehouse Empowers Women of Myanmar
As the people of Myanmar celebrate their new year beginning April 12, a handful of Myanmar women are beginning a new life thanks to an expat run social venture called The Yangon Bakehouse.
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Wonder Women—Larger than Life and Life Affirming
"Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines" premieres on Independent Lens this evening on most PBS member stations.