Out of the all media pieces I have seen in the last week as the world learns that Thomas Beatie is pregnant with his second child, none floored me as much as this piece from “The View” where it is Elizabeth Hasselbeck that brings the conversation back to a sense of reality “”Having another baby […]

As it updates marketers on the latest tactics and trends in their industry, Advertising Age often provides rather illuminating (if depressing) information for progressives. Case in point: the trade publication’s “fact pack” this week, about search engine marketing.
The booklet contains lists of the most popular recent online searches on various topics. Not […]

What, you thought we’d want to take a nap after a long, contentious election season? Not likely…
Last night, WIMN’s Voices was one of about a dozen feminist blogs to host “The Day After,” a national feminist town hall forum organized by Center for New Words. The town hall was two-fold: CNW convened a group […]

REAL TIME UPDATE, 7:15pm: CNW is dealing with technical difficulties with the live feminist town hall forum. Right now, the video playing below is previously recorded video from various public forums prior to the election. There is a live chat going on that you can take part in via Mogulus, but stay tuned […]

As regular readers of this blog know, I’ve been on the road a great deal over the past two months, bringing WIMN’s multimedia lecture, “When Anchormen Attack! Gender, Race and the Media in Election 2008″ to more than a dozen communities across the country. It has been enormously gratifying to delve into these issues in […]

After two long years of coverage of campaign ‘08, election day is finally upon us. Today, go out and vote. Encourage everyone you know to do the same.
But, since democracy entails more than one civic action every four (or two) years, Women In Media & News would like to encourage you to remain active […]

Now it isn’t just ads selling cosmetic surgery that tell you how young you start declining. Two writers in the prestigious New York Review of Books (October 23, 2008) tell us that “nature” is indifferent to people over fifty, especially women, on the grounds that they have stopped reproducing. Then Diane Johnson and Dr. […]

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 […]