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This article presents information on several feminist agendas including reproductive rights, health care, violence against women, poverty, global affairs and more in the U.S. The author reports that the election in the country was the end of the American left's failure to prioritize not only the systematic sidelining of the voices of women, people of color, labor and other public interest representatives in media but also structural and institutional biases within the mass media industry that includes deregulation, corporate consolidation, advertising and economic pressures and access and distribution issues. He refers to the book "Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women," by journalist Susan Faludi. It provided details as to how the religious right used the mainstream media to disrepute feminism through a coup by euphemism, in which repressive, regressive opposition to women's reproductive rights, sexual freedom and women's mass entry into the workplace was relabeled pro-life, pro-motherhood and pro-family.

Reports on the community radio stations in Africa intended to train women journalists to use reporters' technological tools. What compounds women journalists' lack of access to training opportunities that are likely to bring professional advancement; Areas of some training sessions; Training program developed by the Women's International Network of the Africa section of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters.

The article presents the comments of television producer Tom Bettag and David Carr about women in the media business. Bettag said that he wants to answer such questions as why blonde 24-hour cable news reporters are reporting on missing blondes. He said this during an interview published in the December 5, 2005 issue of the "New York" magazine. Carr wrote in the January 9, 2006 issue of the newspaper "The New York Times," about women being ignored for promotion at various companies. He said that some women in the media business are facing many obstacles.

Suggests that women's absence from the news may explain declining readership, according to the study `Women Strike Out' by the Canadian-based media monitoring organization MediaWatch. Comparison between women's share in population and their appearance in newspapers; Average percentage of women reporters in the period 1990-93; Tendency of the news to focus on people with power and influence.

Focuses on the controversy among women writers and mass media companies over lesser percentage of women opinion-editorial (op-ed) columns contained in periodicals in the U.S. Figures representing the low percentage rate of women opinion writers; Lack of straight-forwarded opinion authors; Comments of some media executives about the issue.

The article reports on surveys that focuses on the relation of women with sports and mass media. The "Beacon Journal" republished a column by Betty Jaycox, ex-editor of the journal, about being barred from the press tent at the Professional Golfers' Association Championships because she was a woman. Forty-four years later Augusta National organization still holding out on admitting women to membership in the all-male golf club, the silliness of excluding women from any aspect of sports participation --including sports journalism remains real. A new three-nation study of primetime television soaps in India, Nepal and Bangladesh finds that more than 70% of the serials are set in affluent homes, with women spending 80% of their time within their four walls. The study, "Towards Empowerment," looked at 50 hours and 30 minutes of programming on satellite channels Zee TV, Star Plus and Sony, as well as 49 episodes broadcast on terrestrial channels. The study found that the setting for the majority of the serials was urban, upper class and affluent, with domestic/family space providing most of the backdrop. Surveys have found that there is no progress for women behind the scenes in Hollywood, California.

This article presents calls for paper for the anthology about Women and Media: National and International Perspectives. The editors, Theresa Carilli and Jane Campbell are interested in either descriptive or empirical articles which examine some dimension of how women are depicted in the media and address the contributions made by an extraordinary female to media.

Reports on the results of VH1 executive Lauren Zalaznick's detailed analysis of 'The New York Times' newspaper's content and analysis. Coverage of women in the newspaper; Top professions for men and women; Differences in the subjects women and men wrote about.

Focuses on the International Women's Media Foundation's report entitled `Women in the Media: Facing Obstacles...Changing Attitudes,' on attitudes towards women in the media. Survey responses from women journalists at the 1995 World Conference on Women; Balancing work and family as the biggest obstacle; Lack of role models and mentors; Discrimination in issues of salary and access to jobs and information.

This article deals with the presence of women in the field of journalism in the U.S. The American Society of Newspaper Editors only began gathering data on women in the newsroom in 1999. In 2004, its members reported that the proportion of females had returned to the level tallied that year, about 37 percent, after a two-year decline. Women of color make up just 16 percent of those. Data collected by MediaTenor, an international content analysis company, studied sourcing in 2003, and found that U.S. news programs relegated women to stereotypical fields of expertise, such as health, society and human interest. Overall, international television news stories included women only 14 percent of the time. Similarly, in 2001, women made up just 15 percent of all sources on U.S. network news, and only 9 percent of professional and political voices. The missing female voices resound loudly in their absence. Journalists often seek men to be sources not out of a willful dismissal of the talents of women, psychologists and sociologists suggest, but because of our own unconscious tendencies. In an effort to understand these processes, one team of researchers designed the Implicit Association Test. In its first year-and-a-half of public use, they found that no matter what people said they believed about sex roles, the 600,000 men and women who took the test were far more likely to associate women with liberal arts subjects and men with technical ones.

Focuses on the symposium organized by the National Organization for Women Foundation about the media and its impact on women's lives in light of the technological and political changes in the industry. Lack of women in the media; Details on gender and racial equity in media; Brainstorming on political change.