Not Your Mother’s Politics: Women & Gender

Jill Miller Zimon

The Civic Commons

Council Member, City of Pepper Pike

Blogger, Writes Like She Talks

Dirty Politics?The Poynter Kent State Media Ethics Workshop 2012

September 20, 2012Kent State University, Kent Ohio

Sexism Sells But We’re Not Buying It

Equal Opportunity Offending

Including all the members of the media who have asked if

Paul Ryan, as a father of three young children, would be able

to handle being Vice President.

Oh, wait.

We wish it was *just* a novelty…

But the media’s making it business, too.

Then there’s the substance of the coverage…

Reporter obsessed with candidate’s shoes

NYT, 8/24/12, A18

5MinutesforMom.com

Moms asking reporters to stop being obsessed

http://www.nameitchangeit.org/

Additional Resources:

• Change the Ratio (focus is tech field, Rachel Sklar)

• Elect Women (focus is politics, Kathy Groob)

• Ms. Representation (published by the Women’s Campaign Fund)

• Women’s eNews (EIC is Rita Jensen Henley)

• Women in Media and News (founded and run by Jennifer Pozner)

• The Women's Media Center (founded in 2005 by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem)

• Women, Action & the Media | WAM! | Center for New Words (co-founded by Jaclyn Friedman and Laura Zimmerman)

Thank you:

Joanne BambergerGloria FeldtJennifer PoznerRachel Sklar

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