OK, compared to all I’ve complained about related to the media since we founded WIMN’s Voices years ago, what I’m about to gripe about is piddly. But after three years of using this blog to elevate public debate about media, gender and politics, I’m going to indulge in what most people usually use blogs for […]

By Guest Blogger Mara Einstein
U.S News & World Report came out with an article alerting us yet again to the dangers of food industry marketing. Called “10 Things the Food Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know,” the piece outlines some of the inside workings of the food industry, practices that are bad for your […]

On Monday, I was fortunate to hear 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Iranian human rights lawyer Dr. Shirin Ebadi speak. This truly remarkable woman condemned her government’s continued repression of women and religious minorities, which she said is based on a misinterpretation of Islamic law. She also criticized the United States, for […]

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This cartoon is of course based on a real quote from John McCain during the last debate:
‘Just again, the example of the eloquence of Sen. Obama. He’s health for the mother. You know, that’s been stretched by the pro-abortion movement in America to mean almost anything. That’s the extreme pro-abortion position, […]

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT, TODAY: Quick reminder — as mentioned here last week, I will be presenting WIMN’s multimedia program, “When Anchormen Attack! Gender, Race and the Media in Election 2008” at Ramapo College of New Jersey tonight, Oct. 22, at 7pm.
The lecture will be held in the Sherp Theater in the Berrie Center on Ramapo’s […]

The issue here is acquaintance rape, how it was just one of those many unpleasant things accepted as “just life” (as Gloria Steinem has quipped) before feminists named it.

My first impression of GOP VP nominee Sarah Palin’s appearance on Saturday Night Live last night? Well, I suppose the cold open was more fun than a moose hunt (says the city dweller who favors gun control).
While there was some entertainment value in the hall-of-mirrors aspect to Palin looking on as Tina Fey skewered […]

Clearly one of the biggest challenges in relating this story is that the “border” is but a distant place, an idea, if you will, in the minds of most people in the U.S. But the laws of the land have a tendency to bend and falter when on the margins of this nation.

I hadn’t heard of an organization called “The Girl Effect” before five minutes ago, when a friend forwarded this viral video, which uses a basic storyboard format to make the case that educating and providing microloans to girls and women is a core step toward solving global poverty, HIV, inequality and more. It’s a point […]

If you’re in Missouri or Massachusetts this week, I’d love to see you when I bring WIMN’s multimedia lecture “When Anchormen Attack! Gender, Race and the Media in Election 2008” to your neck of the woods this week:
Oct. 14, 7pm: University of Missouri-Columbia (logistics here)
Oct. 16, 11:30am - 1pm, Lasell College, Newton, MA (Dewitt Hall; […]