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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
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Sexism Sells But We’re Not Buying It
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Equal Opportunity Offending
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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.
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We wish it was *just* a novelty…
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But the media’s making it business, too.
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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
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http://www.nameitchangeit.org/
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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)
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Thank you:
Joanne BambergerGloria FeldtJennifer PoznerRachel Sklar
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