What you see is what you get. And what you don’t see is what you don’t get.
Nina Menkes, award-winning filmmaker, director and creator of the new documentary, “Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power” anchored a recent panel following a screening in Chicago at Facets on the historic visualization of characters identifying as women and how that mandates how systems treat half the world.
Read More“What we don’t see, what we don’t hear, we cannot humanize,” says Nakisha M. Lewis, the new president and CEO of Breakthrough, a global nonprofit that uses the power of media, technology and popular culture to transform systems around gender, race, sexuality and immigrant rights.
Read MoreWe are oh so far from the purring Catwoman character played by Julie Newmar in the 1960s “Batman” tv series.
Read MoreIt matters who reports the stories. It matters who edits the stories and it matters who is quoted in the stories. It also matters who is leading the journalism organization and making key decisions. Why? Because invisibility in the media is erasure in society.
Read MoreThe drive to change who is seen, heard and represented in television, movies, print, broadcast and digital media was the goal of the recent See Jane Salon in Chicago.
Read MoreFew rivalries between successful female competitors were as fierce onscreen and off-screen as the spite fest between mid-20th century Hollywood divas Joan Crawford and Bette Davis.
Read MoreGenerations after women journalists have supposedly freed themselves from the mandatory “pink ghetto” of exclusively writing about topics of food, family, furniture, fun and fitness, the media landscape is still uneven.
Read MoreIn the 1980s I worked for a newspaper in Texas as a feature writer and columnist where staff parties of arrivals, departures and birthdays were held at the bar across the street. Often they included serving a cake decorated with a naked woman, complete with pink and black icing. I was in my 20s and not well-versed in the newsroom culture, but as soon as I saw the anatomically correct lady cake, I took three cocktail napkins and covered her sugar-coated image.
Read MoreThe score was 32 to 14.
The recent Modern Marketing Summit 2016 in Chicago recently, a gathering of hundreds of digital marketing executives, creatives, agency leaders, retailers and mobile innovators, offered several all-male panels (see Take The Lead’s recent column on that issue here), with the roster of speakers featuring 32 men and 14 women leaders in marketing.
Read MoreNatalie Portman has no pants, the all-female leads in the remake of “Ghostbusters” were trashed before the movie came out and the TV women on all levels were snubbed for Emmy nominations.
Read MoreKat Gordon started the 3% Conference three years ago to change the fact that only three percent of creative directors in advertising are female. (We know—crazy, right?) At its annual conference in New York last week, the organization announced a plan to do more than talk about the problem.
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