Makers: Women Who Make America is a sweeping 3-hour documentary of the movement for women's equality in the last half of the twentieth century. Airing this month on US public television, it's accompanied by an
online archive of videos of interviews with individual women in leadership across a variety of fields. Leaders and activists, celebrities and pioneers, and everyday women retell the story of their awakening, organizing, and world-changing efforts.
posted by Miko
on Feb 28, 2013 -
5 comments
Ever made fun of a commercial, a TV show, or a romantic comedy? Of course you have. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel. But even shooting fish in a barrel can be done with style. Check out Info Mania’s Sarah Haskins’ Target Women spots in which Haskins dissects how the media types depicts we women types, especially when it comes to those matters so dear to the lady brain, like
Botox,
birth control,
chick flicks,
female political candidates,
number two,
cleaning,
jewelry,
diets,
aging,
skin care,
the Oscars,
Disney Princesses,
vampires,
The View,
Michelle Obama’s arms,
Lifetime programming,
chocolate,
lady parts,
laundry,
security,
weddings, and of course that official food of women,
yogurt. You can find a complete listing of Target Women spots
here.
posted by orange swan
on Jan 20, 2010 -
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The "Revolution" that isn't. The idea that well-educated women are leaving their careers behind and choosing to stay at home is a recurring story- notably in "
The Opt Out Revolution", Lisa Belkin's 2003 essay in the New York Times. A
closer examination [.pdf, long] challenges the idea that women are returning home as a matter of biological "pull" rather than a workplace "push", and argues that how the media portrays the personal decisions of a few obfuscates the real social needs of most American working families. In 2007, the United States is one of the
few countries in the world without paid maternity leave.
posted by ambrosia
on Mar 16, 2007 -
55 comments
You would think that with
4,000 women and 200 girls together, along with hundreds of NGOs and representatives of 45 governments the United Nations'
Commission on the Status of Women would be well covered by the media.
Sadly, it is not: this year
only 10 journalists demanded media accreditation to cover the international meeting, while pro-life groups are more than happy to
send delegates arguing that "governments should protect girls from the moment of conception."
The Commission however is no small event:
it provided a legal frame protecting the rights of women and girls worldwide (those rights were officially adopted in the early 90s [!]). It also provides standards to which participant countries must try live up to.
This blog takes us backstage, behind the CSW's scene.
posted by Sijeka
on Mar 6, 2007 -
21 comments
All The Nudes That Are Fit To Print: It's no exaggeration to say
La Repubblica is Italy's finest newspaper. It's liberal, modern, intelligent and independent. Along with Spain's
El Pais; France's
Libération and
Le Monde; the UK's
Guardian; Germany's
Die Zeit and Portugal's
Público, it's one of the mainstays of the European Left and Centre-Left. And yet its website offers
calendars in the, er,
Pirelli tradition of time-keeping. Imagine the
New York Times being similarly... liberal. Can soft prOn and serious reporting live together? Is it an Italian thing? The only other example I can think of is Spain's
Interviú, a magazine which in its heyday mixed superb (again, left-leaning) investigative journalism with politically incorrect - and photographically retouched - tits and ass. (
NSFW, obviously, unless you're somewhere in Southern Europe or Louisiana.)
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Oct 29, 2003 -
49 comments
