There is an interview series of professional women in journalism, performed by the University of Iowa, Fall 2009 Gender and Mass Media class. http://www.ourblook.com/Table/Gender-Studies-an…

The students ask questions that try to pinpoint how gender stands in relation to the existing social climate of the media world.

There is currently a blook being compiled based on these interviews, I would encourage you to look into the site, perhaps there is some information or particular views that you hold that may be useful.

There is an interview series of professional women in journalism, performed by the University of Iowa, Fall 2009 Gender and Mass Media class. http://www.ourblook.com/Table/Gender-Studies-an…

The students ask questions that try to pinpoint how gender stands in relation to the existing social climate of the media world.

There is currently a blook being compiled based on these interviews, I would encourage you to look into the site, perhaps there is some information or particular views that you hold that may be useful.

I am looking forward to reading more about this study, and I hope it opens up an opportunity for reporters of both genders to examine how they can meet the highest standards of integrity and fairness in their reporting.

Media people are people, and we all come with bias based on our life experience. That is unavoidable, but until it is acknowledged and accepted, there will be little room for improvement.

Women and women's history are difficult topics for the media and academic settings.

At age 40, I realized that I knew that it did, but nothing of HOW the world turned — from routine repression to relative freedom for women.

I was a pre-teen in the 60s and was vaguely aware of bra-burning and women's 'liberation.' But nothing was taught in school – there were no tv shows – no popular books that would make a person of my generation understand what it took to instill in me the firm belief that there was nothing in the world that I as a woman could not do.

I believe that my generation of women was the first to come of age with most of us believing, taking it for granted, assuming that the world would be fair to us and that our future would be glorious.

Of course, that hasn't always been the case, though my life has been blessed with amazing opportunities that my mother and grandmother would not have dreamed of.

But when I realized that I didn't know how my freedom happened I set out on a journey of discovery and I am now strengthened by the inspiration of countless suffragettes.

I realize I stand on their strong shoulders, and on the shoulders of other women who keep pushing for more than voting rights, who demand the full range of human rights for women.

I want to share that inspiration with other women.

Can you even imagine being a woman and NOT being able to vote?

Thanks to the suffragettes, America has women voters and wide range of women candidates, and we are a better country for it!

Women have voices and choices! Just like men.

But few people know ALL of the suffering that our suffragettes had to go through, and what life was REALLY like for women.

Now you can subscribe FREE to an exciting e-mail series that goes behind the scenes in the lives of eight of the world's most famous women to reveal the shocking and sometimes heartbreaking truth of HOW women won the vote.

Thrilling, dramatic, sequential short story e-mail episodes have readers from all over the world raving about the original historical series, “The Privilege of Voting.”

Read this FREE e-mail series on your coffeebreaks and fall in love with these amazing women!

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I am looking forward to reading more about this study, and I hope it opens up an opportunity for reporters of both genders to examine how they can meet the highest standards of integrity and fairness in their reporting.

Media people are people, and we all come with bias based on our life experience. That is unavoidable, but until it is acknowledged and accepted, there will be little room for improvement.

Women and women's history are difficult topics for the media and academic settings.

At age 40, I realized that I knew that it did, but nothing of HOW the world turned — from routine repression to relative freedom for women.

I was a pre-teen in the 60s and was vaguely aware of bra-burning and women's 'liberation.' But nothing was taught in school – there were no tv shows – no popular books that would make a person of my generation understand what it took to instill in me the firm belief that there was nothing in the world that I as a woman could not do.

I believe that my generation of women was the first to come of age with most of us believing, taking it for granted, assuming that the world would be fair to us and that our future would be glorious.

Of course, that hasn't always been the case, though my life has been blessed with amazing opportunities that my mother and grandmother would not have dreamed of.

But when I realized that I didn't know how my freedom happened I set out on a journey of discovery and I am now strengthened by the inspiration of countless suffragettes.

I realize I stand on their strong shoulders, and on the shoulders of other women who keep pushing for more than voting rights, who demand the full range of human rights for women.

I want to share that inspiration with other women.

Can you even imagine being a woman and NOT being able to vote?

Thanks to the suffragettes, America has women voters and wide range of women candidates, and we are a better country for it!

Women have voices and choices! Just like men.

But few people know ALL of the suffering that our suffragettes had to go through, and what life was REALLY like for women.

Now you can subscribe FREE to an exciting e-mail series that goes behind the scenes in the lives of eight of the world's most famous women to reveal the shocking and sometimes heartbreaking truth of HOW women won the vote.

Thrilling, dramatic, sequential short story e-mail episodes have readers from all over the world raving about the original historical series, “The Privilege of Voting.”

Read this FREE e-mail series on your coffeebreaks and fall in love with these amazing women!

Subscribe free at

http://www.CoffeebreakReaders.com/subscribe.html