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We count our blessings every day to benefit from Gloria Steinem's leadership, and today, on her 90th birthday, we reflect on everything we've learned and been gifted from her. Please join us in celebrating Gloria on her birthday!
In sisterhood and with love, from all of us at WMC.
A new Women’s Media Center report spotlights 20 history-making women of color news executives, their landmark achievements, and workplace inclusion strategies at a time when diversity in the journalism industry faces resistance.
Women made no progress in non-acting Primetime Emmy Award nominations in 2023, and in the typically male-dominated categories, things are getting worse for women, according to the latest Women’s Media Center analysis.
Actor/activist Mariska Hargitay, CNN news anchor Fredricka Whitfield, IndiJ Public Media president/CEO Karen Lincoln Michel, disability rights activist/author Emily Ladau, cultural critic/English professor Koritha Mitchell, and Global Justice Center president Akila Radhakrishnan were honored as “champions for women.”
THE WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER hosted their 2023 WOMEN’S MEDIA AWARDS on October 19th at the Whitby Hotel in New York City. The WMC AWARDS were presented to outstanding leaders and champions for women in media. This year’s WMC 2023 Women’s Media Awards honorees were: Mariska Hargitay, Fredricka Whitfield, Karen Lincoln Michel, Emily Ladau, Koritha Mitchell, and Akila Radhakrishnan.
The Women’s Media Center congratulates the brave, imprisoned feminist Iranian activist, Narges Mohammadi, on winning the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for her work for women’s rights. Today, our thoughts are also with the family of another woman in Iran, Armita Gervand, a teenage girl who was severely assaulted, caused by Iranian officials...
Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, Gloria Steinem Announce the Honorees for the 2023 Women's Media Awards
Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem — the Co-Founders of The WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER — announce the honorees for the 2023 Women’s Media Awards, to be held on Thursday, October 19th, at the Whitby Hotel in New York City.
With Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem — the co-founders of The Women’s Media Center — on hand to personally make the announcement, the honorees for the 2023 Women’s Media Awards have been revealed.
Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem — the Co-Founders of The WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER — announce the honorees for the 2023 Women’s Media Awards: Mariska Hargitay, Fredricka Whitfield, Karen Lincoln Michel, Emily Ladau, Koritha Mitchell, Akila Radhakrishnan
“The Court just handed stalkers and harassers, including of politicians, journalists, climate scientists, doctors advocating for vaccines, you name it, a new weapon,” said Soraya Chemaly, director of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project, an offshoot of the Women’s Media Center, which was founded in 2005 by the actress Jane Fonda and the feminists Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem.
Women's Media Awards 2023 will be held on Thursday evening, October 19, at the Whitby Hotel in New York City
Awards received by Women's Media Center Live with Robin Morgan, an American podcast with an international audience in 110 countries around the globe. The weekly show is written, produced, and hosted by Robin Morgan, the award-winning author of over 20 books, political analyst, former editor-in-chief of Ms. magazine, and, in 2005, co-founder (with Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem) of the Women's Media Center.
Women’s Media Center Live with Robin Morgan recently received an award of excellence from the Communicators Award for an episode exploring the realities of losing reproductive rights. In the winning episode , “Body Snatchers” which aired prior to the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v Wade, Robin explores the realities of a post Roe world and finds a vast network of underground abortion providers and devices. Her special guest for the episode was Jessica Bruder, writer of “The Abortion Underground” in the May edition of The Atlantic.
Ecofeminism is defined by academics as a mix of political activism and intellectual critique that takes on traditionally harmful systems within both gender dynamics and the environment. It sounds complex, and it is. But its core principles are clear.
How are Native American women represented in American media? That is the question Dr. Cristina Azocar, author and journalism professor at San Francisco State University, will examine in a lecture Tuesday, March 28 at 4:00 p.m., at Westfield State University.
One hundred and fifteen years after the protests that would become the first International Women’s Day, women around the globe are still fighting for equal pay, the right to make decisions about their bodies and the ability to be treated as full and equal citizens.
Billie Jean King is a pioneer for gender equity, winning the landmark “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match in 1973 and devoting the next 50 years to fighting for equal pay for women. Gloria Steinem founded Ms. magazine, the National Women’s Political Caucus and the Women’s Media Center and is one of the most prominent feminist leaders of the 21st century.
Men have received 78% of non-acting Oscar nominations over the past 17 years and women 22%, according to an analysis by the Women’s Media Center. The report, “WMC Investigation: 17-Year Analysis of Gender & Non-Acting Academy Award Nominations,” concludes that there have been modest improvements in female representation from 2007 to 2023 but also that progress has been slow and uneven.
Dorothy Pitman Hughes, who died in December, is remembered as a pioneer of civil rights, early childhood education, domestic violence shelters, and feminism. Gloria Steinem considers “the power of one person to influence history.”
At the Women's Media Center's 2022 Women's Media Awards last week, Steinem — a co-founder of the organization — opened up about her relationship with the Duchess of Sussex.
The WMC AWARDS were presented to outstanding leaders and champions for women in media. This year’s WMC 2022 Women’s Media Awards honorees were: Andrea Mitchell, Robin Roberts, Mariana Ardila Trujillo, Loretta J. Ross, Salamishah Tillet, Loreen Arbus, and Maria Martinez.
Hundreds of people gathered in New York to celebrate seven ‘champions for women.’
Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem — the Co-Founders of The WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER — announce the honorees for the 2022 Women’s Media Awards, to be held on Thursday, November 17th, at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City.