WMC News & Features
Hollywood—Don’t They Want the Money?
The author of the annual Celluloid Ceiling report looks beyond the awards season coverage to tell us how Hollywood is treating women professionals—and audience members.
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Myrlie Evers-Williams—Making Her Own History
The inauguration moment that most moved the author, multimedia journalist Mary C. Curtis, came early in the ceremony.
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The Good, the Bad, and Django
The author considers Tarantino's new film and what kinds of movies about race relations tend to get made, and released, in Hollywood.
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January 22, 2013 | Debbie Hines |
Economy,
Health,
Immigration,
Politics,
Race/Ethnicity,
Violence against women
Maryland Women's Agenda for Obama's Second Term
The author checks in with state legislators from the Maryland Women's Caucus to see what they expect from President Barack Obama in his second term.
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Kosovo Human Rights Activists Resist Attacks on LGBT Community
The author, a mtvU/Fulbright fellow in Kosovo, confronts an outbreak of religious extremism of unexpected violence, directed against LGBT expression in Prishtina.
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Abortion Services: A Family Doctor's Perspective
Approaching the 40th anniversary of the decision that legalized abortion, Dr. Linda Prine describes its provision as part of a continuum of care.
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India Tragedy Seen as Transitional Moment
Activists in India look to the unabated anger at the death of a young woman as a turning point in their struggle to combat violence against women.
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Celebrating "Wimmen's Comix"
An exhibit in San Francisco shows how Bay Area cartoonists made history 40 years ago.
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January 04, 2013 | Mary Ann Swissler |
Immigration,
LGBTQIA,
Politics,
Race/Ethnicity,
Violence against women
Violence Against Women—Unfinished Business
The new Congress will have to undo the damage caused by GOP House members who blocked reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act—legislation that until now had earned broad bipartisan support.
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My Interview with Sally Ride
Novelist Margaret McMullan recalls the question she wishes she hadn't asked the first American woman in space, Sally Ride, who died July 23 this year.
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December 24, 2012 | Jennifer Mattson |
Arts and culture,
Feminism,
Girls,
International,
Violence against women
The Year 2012 Is Reflected in "Emotional Creature"
Eve Ensler's latest play on the inner lives of girls treats topical concerns for feminists today throughout the world.
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The Longest, Darkest Night of the Year
This commentary on gun violence will be featured on Women's Media Center Live with Robin Morgan on Saturday, December 22, at 11 AM ET on CBS radio 1580 in the Washington, D.C., area and streaming from WMCLive.com.
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On Susan Rice and How a Non-candidate Is Treated
Amid premature political attacks that were under-analyzed by the media, Susan Rice's actual record as a public servant was ignored. Did she ever have a chance? asks multimedia journalist Mary C. Curtis.
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Underpaid by Law – A Waitress's Story
The author, who struggles to pay her bills serving tables while launching her career as a journalist, describes the day to day results of the federally mandated subminimum wage.
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A Woman’s Place is in the ... State Department
The GOP is taking aim against the nomination of Susan Rice to head the State Department. Will the nation retreat from the precedent of women in this key post—for no good reason?
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The Parable of Bedrock's Fiscal Cliff
If Wilma can teach Fred Debtstone that Bedrock’s national deficit is nothing to fear, could there be hope for the U.S. Congress?
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A Human Rights Politician in the ‘Kingdom of Wonder’
Journalist Michelle Tolson took the occasion of President Obama's visit to the Southeast Asian summit last month to speak to a stalwart member of the opposition party in Cambodia, Mu Sochua.
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November 30, 2012 | Mary Ann Swissler |
Arts and culture,
Disability,
Education,
Health,
Media,
WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
"Warehoused" with Mental Illness—A Filmmaker's Story
"Kings Park" documents a dark age for many women hospitalized with mental illness. The filmmaker looks to the promise of ObamaCare for a better future.
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Living in the Path of Drones
Pakistani women and U.S. peace actives agree: U.S. military drone strikes must stop, writes Lys Anzia of WNN - Women News Network.
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Images of Femicide Displayed to Prompt International Action
A UN exhibit and seminar in Vienna marks a day devoted to ending violence against women. Alice Driver, whose photographs are included among the images, explains.
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November 23, 2012 | Catherine Scott |
Media
Women’s Expertize Promoted on Both Sides of the Atlantic
A British journalist has launched The Women’s Room, which, like several projects in the U.S., proves that the pundit world needn’t be all male.
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WMC Award Winners Assess Media Progress
Last week's awards ceremony in New York City celebrated women making a difference in the media. Marianne Schnall asked award winners how they achieved personal success and what it would take to improve women's overall status.
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Behind the Headlines—Sharing the Spotlight with David Petraeus
The judgment of the media falls unevenly on the primary players in the soap opera that has engulfed the nation, as a WMC co-founder explains in this commentary broadcast earlier today on Women's Media Center Live with Robin Morgan.
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Of Fantasy Sluts and Real-Life Survivors
In fighting sexual violence, says the author, school administrators need to be proactive and help the students themselves change the cultural environment.
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Girls Impact the World Film Festival—A Forum for Social Change
A four-women collaboration hopes to harness the creativity of young women around the world, empowering them to address concerns central to their lives.