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Media coverage of U.S. campus rape and sexualized violence is significantly skewed toward the bylines and voices of men, according to a WMC report.
“Unspinning the Spin: The Women’s Media Center Guide to Fair and Accurate Language” has a preface written by Gloria Steinem and Robin Morgan, who co-founded the Women’s Media Center in 2005 (along with Jane Fonda) to raise the visibility and decision-making power of women in media.
A new partnership of the NoVo Foundation and the Goren Group, a woman-owned real estate development firm, plans to transform the site of a notorious women's prison into a new center for activism and collaboration.
At the annual Women's Media Awards gala, more than 350 people gathered to honor trailblazers—and to look ahead to the next decade of making girls and women visible and powerful in media.
When the Emmy-winning comedian and Trainwreck star, 34, opened the Women’s Media Center Awards on Thursday addressing body image and women in Hollywood, she got a nod of approval from feminist icon Gloria Steinem
Two WMC cofounders have a revealing conversation about Gloria Steinem's My Life on the Road.
The Women’s Media Center announces its honorees for The 2015 Women’s Media Awards on Thursday November 5th at Capitale in New York City.
Women represent only 22 percent of all nominees in 44 writing, directing, editing, and producing categories over the past decade.
A small but growing number of high school teachers all over the United States are offering feminist or women’s studies classes in their schools.
A new program, conceived by Gloria Steinem and Wilma Mankiller, brings together scholars and activists who are making history every day.
The Status of Women in the U.S. Media 2015
Political coverage has an enormous impact on elections — which are the main or only time this country has a national dia-logue about its direction — and women should have an equal ability to ask questions and shape coverage,” center co-found-er Gloria Steinem wrote The Associated Press in an email.
The Women’s Media Center, which was founded by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem and tracks gen-der equity, or lack thereof, in the media, found that in non-acting categories, women made up under 20 percent of the nominees. In seven categories — directing, writing, original screenplay and more — dudes drew all of the nominations. The one place where women are establishing a foothold is in documentary features, with women winning four times in the last decade and nabbing two of five nominations this year.