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International | Entertainment

Geena Davis: damaging stereotypes on screen limit women’s aspirations

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The promises of positive change for women on screen that followed her role in the groundbreaking film Thelma and Louise have failed to materialise, leaving girls today with few role models, according to the actor Geena Davis. The media continue to have a huge influence on how the world views women and girls, and how they view themselves, she said. But few current roles show women in powerful positions, and continue to reinforce damaging gender stereotypes. Davis was speaking to the Guardian as research into the film industry showed that of characters in leadership positions, women were
North America | United States | Business

Female CEOs are 45% more likely to get fired than males. Here are 6 high-achieving women who bounced back after a major firing

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Are high-ranking women more likely than high-ranking men to get the axe? A troubling new study shows that the answer is yes for female CEOs — 45% more likely, in fact. The researchers don't have a lightning bolt of a reason why this is the case, but they do note that it happens even when the company is performing well. But here's the thing to realize, whether you're fired from the C-suite or on your way there: There's hope! Some of the most well-known and well-regarded women in almost every industry have lost one big job — or big client — at one point in their career. The good news f
North America | United States | Career

Five anchors sue NY1 for age and gender discrimination

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Five anchorwomen and reporters at NY1 say the local news channel systematically shoved them aside to make room for younger faces while celebrating the long tenure of male anchors like venerable morning man Pat Kiernan. Roma Torre, Kristen Shaughnessy, Jeanine Ramirez, Vivian Lee and Amanda Farinacci – who range in age from 41 to 60 — filed an age and gender discrimination lawsuit Wednesday in Manhattan federal court leveling the charges at the news channel’s parent company, Charter Communications. The women allege that since Charter’s 2016 merger with Time Warner Cable, their car
Latin America | Brazil | Career

Vogue Brazil director resigns over birthday photos evoking slavery

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The fashion director of the Brazilian edition of Vogue has resigned after photos from her 50th birthday party drew criticism for evoking colonial depictions of slavery. Images from the party showed Donata Meirelles, who is white, sitting on a throne-like seat flanked by four black women dressed in white at the celebration in Bahia, the Brazilian state with the largest black population. Critics compared the women’s clothes to the white uniforms worn by house slaves, and pointed out the chair’s similarity to a cadeira de sinhá, an ornate chair for slave masters.
North America | United States | Media

60 Minutes’ Lara Logan slams the ‘mostly liberal’ media for its coverage

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Logan quipped, “This interview is professional suicide for me.” Famed 60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan has broken ranks with mainstream media, claiming news outlets are now 'mostly liberal' and have become ‘propagandists’ while covering President Trump. The South African-born foreign affairs journalist said that most of the American press is biased against Trump because journalists are overwhelmingly Democrats. She said that journalists no longer abide by reporting standards. ‘Standards are out the window, I mean you read one story after another or hear it and it’s all
Europe | Great Britain | Media

BBC makes Anne Bulford first female deputy director-general

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The prospect of a female director-general of the BBC moved a step closer today, after the corporation’s current boss appointed a woman as his deputy for the first time. Lord Hall of Birkenhead, the director-general, announced that Anne Bulford, the broadcaster’s head of finance, would become deputy director-general, making her the most senior female executive in the corporation’s history. Ms Bulford, who worked with Lord Hall during his time as chief executive of the Royal Opera House, was poached from Channel 4, where she was chief operating officer, to join the BBC in 2013.
North America | United States | Media

Pearlena Igbokwe Makes History as the First Nigerian Woman to Lead a Major U.S. TV Network

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Universal Television handpicked veteran executive producer Pearlena Igbokwe to be its president Friday, Deadline reports. The decision for the subsidiary of National Broadcasting Cable (NBC) is unprecedented, making Lagos-born, Igbokwe, not only the first Igbo Nigerian to helm a major U.S. TV studio, but also what is estimated as the first black American woman appointed to the role. Igbokwe, who immigrated to the U.S. at the age of six during the Biafran War and went on to attend the prestigious Yale University, will take over for Bela Bajarian, who exited the role last month, effective i
International | History

Global Catholic Network founder Mother Angelica has died

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Mother Mary Angelica, a folksy Roman Catholic nun who used a monastery garage to begin a television ministry that grew into a global religious media empire, has died. She was 92. Known to millions of viewers simply as "Mother Angelica," the founder of the Eternal Word Television Network died Easter Sunday at the rural monastery where she lived about 45 miles north of Birmingham, according to EWTN Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael P. Warsaw. With only $200, the nun began broadcasting a religious talk show from a TV studio put together in the monastery garage in suburban Birming
International | Media

FOR THE WOMEN WAR CORRESPONDENTS AT CBS NEWS, THE OFFICE IS A BATTLEFIELD

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On her most recent trip to Syria, CBS correspondent Elizabeth Palmer and her team were going to "make a break" for Aleppo. To get there, they would have to travel on a road that ISIS controls and has already shelled. "There is always a little knot in my stomach just because of that," she says when I spoke to her via phone recently. The veteran reporter has visited the war-torn country over a dozen times, giving her a sense of the land that violence has decimated. Aleppo "is a city that was once one of the great tourist destinations of the Middle East, and it is on its knees. This is
Asia | China | Activism

How one brave woman is taking on growing might of China’s censors

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This was hardly a tabloid headline, but the article was explosive anyway, with an illustration of a mouth gagged by layers of masking tape to drive home the message. China’s most powerful journalist was taking on Beijing over censorship. Within hours the article attacking government controls – “Story about adviser’s free speech comments removed from Caixin website” – had been censored itself, but not before screenshots and reports of the financial magazine’s extraordinary challenge had rippled around the internet. Editor Hu Shuli has spent decades nurturing her connections
International | Media

Femina Celebrates One Year Anniversary – 184 Countries – International Women’s Day

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Femina.com is celebrating our one year anniversary today. Launched March 8th, 2015 for International Women's Day, Femina has reached and is being read in over 184 countries. In the graphic, the darker the shade of blue, the more visitors we have had from that country. Femina.com highlights and showcases what women are doing around the world, great and small, and demonstrates that there are profoundly powerful role models everywhere you look. To celebrate we are linking to some of our favorite stories that we have covered throughout the year. THE MEN OF THE DONA COMMUNITY GAVE THE WO
South Asia | Australia | Media

Australian Women’s Weekly editor-in-chief Helen McCabe resigns after six years

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Helen McCabe has resigned as editor-in-chief of the Australian Women’s Weekly after six years in the high-profile role at the nation’s highest-selling magazine. The former News Corp Australia journalist and Channel Seven reporter joined the magazine world in 2009 after a stint as deputy editor of the Sunday Telegraph and high-level roles on the Australian. McCabe has grabbed some headlines of her own for some of the editorial choices she made at the magazine, once owned by Kerry Packer but now owned by German publishers Bauer Media. The news of her resignation came on the same day
North America | United States | Media

Two Female NBA Analysts Make Sports Broadcasting History

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Following a year in which ESPN's Jessica Mendoza made sports broadcasting history when she became the first woman to call a nationally televised MLB playoff game, Fox Sports commentators Stephanie Ready and Ann Meyers added their own 2016 footnote on Wednesday night when the pair became the first female NBA analysts to work the same game. The pair, which announced the Charlotte Hornets-Phoenix Suns for their separate local affiliates, have extensive histories within the game.
Middle East | Palestine | Media

Women journalists raise their voices in Gaza

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In male-dominated Palestinian society, female journalists in the Gaza Strip have been striving to get ahead. By improving the image of women in the various media outlets and increasing local coverage of women's issues, they hope to make society recognize that women are essential partners to men, strengthen the role of women's organizations and develop the role of female Palestinian journalists. In the large media sector of the Gaza Strip, which is a hotbed of events that constantly attract the world’s attention, there are only five women-focused media outlets trying to find their niche. M

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