Communications, Culture & Society

Popular culture and communications have a powerful influence on how gender roles are perceived and stereotypes perpetuated across society. NCRW and its members uncover and counter misinformation providing context and analysis about the accuracy of how the daily lives, responsibilities and realities of women and girls are represented and interpreted in the media. Efforts are also focused on increasing opportunities for women commentators and opinion leaders to influence public perceptions and debate.

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As part of its Transforming Lives Documentary Film Project, the Institute for Women's Leadership at Rutgers University features the following...
In case you missed, the Women's Media Center featured an excellent article on the forthcoming documentary on late-term abortion, Trust Women. Here's...
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By Rylee Sommers-Flanagan*This post originally appeared on the Health Justice Blog associated with the Health Justice Division of the New York...
July 27, 2009 posted by Kyla Bender-BairdAs I began collecting background research for National Parent’s Day and the vast diversity of families...

Member Experts

As Member Center Relations Liaison, Kadija Ferryman coordinates the activities pertaining to NCRW’s over 100 Member Centers. At the Council she...
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Clare Winterton is Executive Director of the International Museum of Women. She is a former Vice President of the Women’s Funding Network and has...
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 A firm believer in the power and potential of all girls and young women, Jeannette Pai-Espinosa assumed leadership of The National Crittenton...
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Urjasi Rudra manages UN Women’s global communications initiative, Say NO - UNiTE to End Violence against Women. Through an interactive web...
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Rita Henley Jensen is Founder and Editor in Chief of award-winning nonprofit news service Women's eNews (www.womensenews.org) and its sister site...
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Jamia Wilson is Vice President of Programs at the Women’s Media Center. Jamia has a strong background in youth leadership development...
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Mallika Dutt is the President and CEO of Breakthrough, a global human rights organization that uses the power of media, pop culture and community...
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Gloria Jacobs is Executive Director of the Feminist Press, a non-profit publisher affiliated with the City University of New York. The Press has been...
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An advocate of women’s issues for more than 30 years, Marie C. Wilson is founder and President of The White House Project, co-creator of Take...
Kyla Bender-Baird, Research and Programs Manager, is providing the Council with a wide range of research and communications support. She received a...

News

  • July 24, 2012

    The Arizona Republic reports that opponents of Arizona's controversial immigration law, Senate Bill 1070, are using dozens of e-mails sent by Russell Pearce over the past six years to allege that the law was racially motivated and that the former...


  • July 23, 2012

    A study published in the journal Organization Science finds that when managers have to explain their pay-raise decisions to employees, they tend to give more money to men than they do to women -- even if the workers' performance is equal.

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  • July 23, 2012

    Japanese and Australian Olympic sports governing bodies are under fire after complaints that male athletes flew business class to the London Games, while the women sat in economy seats.

     


  • July 23, 2012

    Record numbers of women are running for seats in the House and Senate.


  • July 19, 2012

    Amanda Marcotte examines the LA Times' misconstruction of a study on women's sports watching habits.