Protests against President Trump’s travel ban in images - photos by Jenny...
Across the country people took to the streets this weekend to protest against President Trump's executive order banning travelers from seven majority-Muslim countries. WMC photojournalist Jenny...
View ArticlePro-Choice Groups Fighting Back Against Onslaught of Abortion Restrictions
“2017 promises to be a year of extraordinary challenges to women’s access to reproductive health care,” said Jennifer Dalven, director of the American Civil Liberties Union Reproductive Freedom...
View ArticleDisability and Hollywood, a Sordid Affair
And the winner is … definitely not an actor with a visible disability. I say visible disability because I have no way of knowing if any of the nominees in the acting categories have an invisible...
View ArticleNew Fund Provides More Than Capital for Women Entrepreneurs
The SheEO Radical Generosity Fund is an initiative created to transform the experience of women entrepreneurs who are bringing forth world-changing ideas. In the pot is $1million in capital that has...
View ArticleDorothy Height: A Woman Who Wore Many Hats
Dorothy Irene Height blended substance with style as she tackled gender and racial issues. You never saw Height without a hat. She had lots of them: Blue hats. Green hats. A high-topped cranberry hat...
View ArticleA Female Gaze? Athena Film Festival Asks, Answers
On a frigid, snowy four-day weekend in February, I joined nearly 6,000 other movie lovers as we descended on Barnard College to attend the seventh annual Athena Film Festival. Co-founded by Barnard’s...
View ArticleThe Fatal “New Normal” for Wives of Veterans
The first time I called 911 about my husband’s violence was the second time it happened. Lorin was a two-time combat veteran with severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Before he came back from...
View ArticleCould ReFrame Be a Game-Changer for Women in Hollywood?
As career statistics for women in film and television continue to flatline, women are not patiently waiting for Hollywood to sluggishly evolve. Instead, women across the spectrum—journalists, critics,...
View ArticleUnthinkable: What If Roe Is Overturned?
Prior to 1973, an estimated 1.2 million women in the U.S. had illegal abortions each year, resulting in 5,000 annual deaths. Legal abortion was available in only 17 states. After the landmark Roe v....
View ArticleVisionary Feminist Artist Finding Recognition after 50 Years
After five decades of making art, 75-year-old feminist and media pioneer Lynn Hershman Leeson is being discovered by U.S. audiences and her work hailed as prophetic. Hershman Leeson moved from...
View ArticleMuslim Female Athletes Use Voice and Visibility to Break Barriers
While working in Tehran in the early 2000s, Iranian journalist Solmaz Sharif found herself becoming increasingly aware of the lack of coverage of women in sports. Wanting to give Muslim female...
View ArticleMurders of Trans Women Highlight the Intersection of Racial and Gender-Based...
Jaquarrius Holland was only 18 when she was shot and left for dead in the streets of Monroe, Louisiana in February of this year. She was the seventh of eight transgender women to be brutally murdered...
View ArticleOprah Winfrey and the Immortal Reach of Henrietta Lacks
Deborah Lacks grew up without her mother, who died when she was only 2 years old. Her longing for details about her mother’s life is a key aspect of the new HBO film The Immortal Life of Henrietta...
View ArticleReligious Leaders Thwart Abortion Rights in Sierra Leone
The Safe Abortion Bill For every 100,000 live births in Sierra Leone, 1,360 women die. According to a 2015 World Health Organization report, Sierra Leone has the worst maternal mortality rate in the...
View ArticleTrump Policies That Hurt Workers May Be New Wedge Issue
Chatting on her front porch with a Working America organizer named Sara, Phylis, an 87-year-old voter in Columbus, Ohio, talked about her views on good jobs and President Trump. “I wouldn't think much...
View ArticleJust How Bad for Women Is the American Health Care Act?
“Across the board, this is a terrible bill for women,” said Jamila K. Taylor, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, speaking about the American Health Care Act (AHCA). The Republican-led...
View ArticleWhy Women Leave Tech Companies
The tech industry is known for rolling out promising diversity campaigns that aim at making the industry more inclusive and welcoming for women and people of color. In 2013 Facebook hired a global...
View ArticleClimate Change: a feminist issue
In Tuvalu, climate change is a feminist issue. Asita Moloti has been leading workshops on gender equality and climate change in the tiny nation of Tuvalu since 2004. “While men’s and women’s lives are...
View ArticleWomen at the Forefront of Renewable Energy
Last week President Donald Trump announced to a dismayed world that the United States was “leaving” the Paris Agreement—the most important global accord to mitigate climate change. This announcement...
View ArticleTrump’s Anti-Immigrant Policies Create Dire “Choices” for Domestic Violence...
"I am afraid,” said G., a domestic violence survivor from Honduras who lives in rural Texas, explaining how President Trump’s policies on undocumented immigrants—making everyone a priority for...
View ArticleWonder Woman as a Rorschach Test for Women
High hopes and low expectations. That was my attitude when I walked into a dark theater at 12:30 p.m. on a Friday, the opening weekend of Wonder Woman, directed by Patty Jenkins. Since then, I have...
View ArticleIt’s been a ‘heartless’ week for women’s health care
Lawmakers in Missouri set the tone for a dark week in health care reform for women. On Tuesday, the House sent a bill to the state Senate that, if passed, will infringe on the rights of women seeking...
View ArticleSenate Bill Calls for Defunding of Planned Parenthood
“It makes absolutely no sense to eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood,” said Senator Susan Collins, Republican from Maine, on Sunday’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. The following...
View ArticleTrump’s misogynistic tweets reflect sexism in America
As the Trump administration moved forward on Thursday with new guidelines that severely restrict travel from six Muslim-majority countries, yet again the country was distracted by Trump’s latest...
View ArticleNo Ceiling On Our Right to Be Heard: People of Color and Allies Mobilize for...
After making the 500-mile journey from Harat to the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, twice, to request permission to compete in an international robotics competition to be held in Washington, D.C., this month,...
View ArticleJustice Groups Fight Back Against Texas Lawmakers’ Anti-Trans, Anti-Choice Bills
Anti-transgender “bathroom bills” and further restrictions for accessing abortion are on the agenda of the Texas state legislature’s 30-day special session called by Republican Governor Greg Abbott,...
View ArticleBetty Dukes: The Worker Who Took On Walmart
In 2001, Betty Dukes was a 51-year-old cashier at Walmart in Pittsburg, California. After years of watching her male co-workers getting higher pay and faster promotions, she became the lead plaintiff...
View ArticleWomen Disability Activists Front and Center in Resistance
Call it the summer of discontent, the season that had the disability community on edge and disability rights activists positioned to strike back at lawmakers who were introducing adverse policies that...
View ArticleThe NRA’s Cynical Campaign on Domestic Violence
In a National Rifle Association video targeted to women, spokeswoman Dana Loesch declares that “real empowerment” for women occurs only when they are armed and ready to shoot and kill abusive...
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How Suffragists—and Their Foes—Used Media
A new online archive devoted to media tools and strategies used in the U.S. women’s suffrage movement has debuted ahead of November’s 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote in New York...
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