Author Calls On Women To Change The Media

Gloria Feldt’s book “No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change the Way We think About Power and Leadership,” argues that gender inequality is still a real problem in our society – and that women are responsible for fixing it. In an interview with Ms. Magazine, Feldt calls on women to enact change in the media:

It’s been said of any profound social change that first they laugh at you, then they try to kill you and finally they accept you as normal. We’re on the cusp of women’s power and leadership being accepted as normal. Some will still vilify women. Righting that wrong is exactly why we must look those retrogrades in the eye and keep on moving forward.

Women must BE the media to change the media – as Ms. Magazine has done for decades. We need many more progressive women to create and lead media organizations. Meanwhile, the rest of us can pitch a fit at sexist media, as we call it at the Women’s Media Center where I serve on the board.

Get to it, bitches.

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