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Women's Media Center profile


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
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