Category: Gender Issues

I MISSED SCREAMING. When I taught in upstate New York, I used to pick up my little nieces on Saturday mornings and take them with me to the car wash. We pretended we were in a horror film. By the time those big steamy, sudsy strips started slapping the car, we…

AS A WAY to ignite conversation around the word, “feminism,” SheKnows Media and Ms. Foundation for Women have created a video contest open to all individuals over the age of 18 in the U.S.

CONTINUING ITS mission as a watchdog for equal representation in reporting, the Women’s Media Center is out with a report that exposes a gender gap when it comes to coverage of reproductive issues. It found that overall, women wrote just 37%…

THE ONLINE VIDEO streaming service for educational institutions, Kanopy, hosted a documentary screening program with the American Libraries Association (ALA) Midwinter this month. The program aimed to confront issues impacting the U.S. and libraries today — gun control, slut shaming, and racial identity —…

JACKI ZEHNER IS now part of a collection of successful women telling their ”you need to know” stories for Forbes’ Mentoring Moments series. Her main piece of advice: “You can’t let one bad guy push you out.” Check out the rest of her mentoring advice…