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Ramares-Watson opportunity to to produce a piece on "government and big pharma are trying to compel compliance with prescriptions to take psychiatric drugs. The reporter relayed, Women get psych prescriptions far more than men, and parents are being told to medicate their kids." Media Equity requires this report to be published first on a women-led outlet. Women remain underrepresented at almost all levels and in almost all forms of media. In the first six months of 2012 as many as 25 separate reports came out speaking of this media bias. While Media Equity monitors gender bias within corporate media, the core of its work is building and resourcing women-owned media outlets. It is estimated that there may be as many of two thousand such entities operating throughout the US. Media Equity would like to provide awards to additional innovative and diverse feminist media, preferably with a few more zeros added to the awards. More donors and funding communities, however, need to step up to achieve this vision. Media Equity hopes these examples will encourage more funders to step forward to support women's voices where their raw power is most effective and vibrant, within women-owned media.
Since 2008 the following supporters have assisted Media Equity to advance its work: Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Foundation, Tracy Gary, Anonymous, Michael Meyers, Ms. Foundation for Women, Third Wave Foundation, On the Issues magazine, Women Make Movies, Free Press, and Social Science Research Council as part of a re-grant program from the Ford Foundation.
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MEC Mission: Dedicated to ensure a swath of new resources to build the gendered Feminist Public Sphere into a network with national identity and force -- which honor core principles without compromise to racial & economic justice, grassroots political activism, women!s empowerment & human rights, and the evolution of a selfdetermined healthy environment & culture for all
International Media Project, Inc. # 94-3239511 is fiscal sponsor for Media Equity Collaborative.
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