Name | Women's Media Center |
Acronym | WMC |
Material link | http://www.womensmediacenter.com/fbomb |
Start date | 2005 |
End date | ongoing |
Short description | The Women's Media Center works to ensure women are powerfully and visibly represented in the media and to diversify the media in its content and sources, so that the stories and perspectives of women and girls are more accurately portrayed. The organization convenes panels, issues reports, organizes grassroots campaigns, and meets with media outlets to address issues of women’s representation and general diversity. In response to the report from the American Psychological Association's Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls, the Women's Media Center partnered with over 10 other organizations to organize the Sexualization Protest: Action, Resistance, Knowledge, also known as the SPARK Summit. The SPARK Summit was a day-long event to speak out and to push back on the sexualization of girls while igniting a movement for girls’ rights to healthy sexuality. The SPARK Summit took place on October 22, 2010 at Hunter College in New York City. |
Main Organization | Women's Media Center |
Freelance | / |
Country | United States |
Types | awareness raising career development and promotion independent external monitoring |
Related issues | information, knowledge, research media representation participation and access to media |
Media sector | television radio print media (for example, newspaper/s, magazine/s) digital media (for example, online news site/s) social media (for example, Facebook, Twitter) film |