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What It Took to Bring Equal Pay Champion Lilly Ledbetter’s Story to Life

1 week ago | womensmediacenter.com | Carmen Rios

WMC News & Features Lilly Ledbetter worked for 19 years at a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plant before she learned she was being paid significantly less than her male counterparts. In 1999, she filed a pay discrimination lawsuit against Goodyear, which seven years later ended up before the Supreme Court. When the Court ruled against Ledbetter the following year, her fight continued.
Women in India Join Global Trend of Increased Solo Travel

2 weeks ago | womensmediacenter.com | Arundhati Nath

WMC News & Features Anamika Vishwakarma was 23 years old when she traveled solo for the first time. While she had planned to do so earlier, she found it difficult to convince her family to let her. She lives in a joint family consisting of her parents, grandparents, and brothers in Varanasi, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. “In 2022, I traveled solo to Manali, 1,350 kilometers from my hometown,” she says. “It was a 15-day trip.
Equal Pay Day Spotlights Wage Gaps

1 month ago | womensmediacenter.com | Carmen Rios

March 25 marks All Women’s Equal Pay Day — which represents how far into 2025 women, on average, must work in order to earn what men earned by the end of 2024. The National Committee on Pay Equity first recognized “National Pay Inequity Awareness Day” in 1996, hoping to raise awareness about Each year, it now serves as a reminder of how much work remains in the fight for women’s economic equality.
Abortion Seekers on Parole or Probation Face Dire Obstacles to Care

Dec 5, 2024 | womensmediacenter.com | Susan Buttenwieser

Two years after the Dobbs decision, a majority of the 800,000 women on parole or probation in the U.S. now live in a state with some form of an abortion ban and have travel restrictions as part of their community supervision, according to the Prison Policy Initiative, a research and advocacy organization focused on mass incarceration.
LGBTQ Centers in US Experience Increased Harassment, Threats, and Violence

Nov 20, 2024 | womensmediacenter.com | Susan Buttenwieser

WMC News & Features An alarming 73% of LGBTQ centers around the United States experienced harassment and threats of violence during the past two years. A majority of those incidents were a direct result of anti-LGBTQ politics and rhetoric, according to new research from Movement Advancement Project and CenterLink, which supports and connects LGBTQ community centers around the country.
2024 WMC Women’s Media Awards Recognize Leaders in Film, Television, Journalism, and Activism

Sep 19, 2024 | womensmediacenter.com | Carla Hay

Women are diverse, complicated, powerful, and resilient in the ongoing fight for gender equality and other civil rights. And in this election year, the stakes seem be to higher than ever before. That was the general consensus in speeches and conversations at the 2024 Women’s Media Center Women’s Media Awards, which were presented on September 19 at the JW Marriott Essex House in New York City.
Cash Bail: ‘Devastating’ for Women and Families

Aug 21, 2024 | womensmediacenter.com | Susan Buttenwieser

WMC News & Features One in four women behind bars has not yet been convicted of a crime or even started their trial. Instead, they are being held in pretrial detention because they can’t afford their bail, with long-term negative consequences to themselves as well as their families.
Proposal Would Allow Proxy Voting for New Moms in US House

May 21, 2024 | womensmediacenter.com | Megan McGibney

WMC News & Features In a rare show of bipartisanship, two Congresswomen introduced a bill back in January that could change how women in the House of Representatives balance the demands of motherhood and voting duties. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., and Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., announced House Resolution 967 which aims to amend House rules by allowing a member “who has given birth to designate another Member as a proxy to vote, except for a quorum call.
New Documentaries By Women Put Spotlight on Systemic Child Abuse

Apr 9, 2024 | womensmediacenter.com | Carla Hay

As the #MeToo movement continues to have far-reaching effects for abuse survivors and abusers, a recent wave of women-directed documentaries have been getting significant attention for putting the spotlight on systemic and institutional child abuse. The documentaries have not only been getting impressive viewership for their respective TV networks or streaming services, but they have also raised awareness and motivated people to take action and seek justice through the legal system.
Oscar-Nominated Female Filmmakers in Their Own Words

Mar 6, 2024 | womensmediacenter.com | Carla Hay

When it comes to women getting Oscar nominations in non-acting categories, making a movie that does things that are original or unexpected — along with having the creative freedom to do so — is often crucial to getting nomination recognition from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization whose members vote for the Oscars.