Our list of influential women leaders is growing, here is the updated list, please note that if a submitted name is already on the Time list, then I didn’t include it here:

Barbara Brenner–Breast Cancer Action
Jennifer Drew–English activist working to highlight misogynist media portrayals of sexual assault.
Cathy Webster–1000 Grandmothers
Geena Davis
Leuren Moret and Helen Caldicott for raising […]

This communication from Anne Walker in Melbourne makes it clear that sexism of the crudest kind is still alive and kicking, showing up in different places in different forms at different times:
“Sam Newman is a well-known football personality here in Australia and is a key member of an entertainment show called ‘The Footy Show […]

“Institutions that are not changed cannot become agents of change. Just as gender has to be mainstreamed in government it has to be mainstreamed in the media. There are no quick fixes; no short cuts.”

OK, I know you’re all going to think I’m biased because Ammu Joseph collaborates with WIMN by writing about international media and media activism here at WIMN’s Voices. (In fact, if you didn’t see her earlier post from the conference today, check it out, it’s definitely worth a read.) But having just listened to Ammu’s […]

I had been asked to make a presentation during the second forum of the conference, focusing on issues concerning women working in the media, but - due to some last-minute communication gaps - I found myself slotted instead into session five, on ways out of sexism in the media, scheduled for Sunday. I thought […]

Some photos from the Mediz conference on sexism in Turkish media taken with panelists at the site, as well as during a bit of post-conference sightseeing in Istanbul, Turkey.
Ammu Joseph chats with the man in charge of CNN Turk:

Me, with Fernanda Zanuzzi, a feminist radio activist from Spain:

A young Turkish photographer documents the Mediz […]

Today’s morning panel at the Mediz conference on sexism in the media in Turkey, “Diagnosis and Exposure of Sexism in the Media - Mediz Analysis,” has seven speakers including the moderator, who are all discussing the results of their first major content analysis study of representations of women in print media, television, radio and the […]

There is simply no escape from U.S. corporate media…anywhere.

In its annual exercise of misogynist myopia, Time Magazine has decreed that only 25% of the world’s most influential people happen to be women, and at that 8 of those women are in the arts and entertainment field (although 3 of them were listed in the Heroes and Pioneers category).
So, much like the list […]

UPDATE: See below for Fernanda’s content about feminist radio, as promised. Earlier today I posted a liveblog entry from Istanbul’s first-ever “international conference for nonsexist media” sponsored by Mediz, a media watch project organized by a coalition of Turkish women’s rights NGOs (view Mediz’s English website here). What follows is the second conference session, […]