The sign for our sesson on Women in New Media at Podcamp Boston 4
Last year at Podcamp Boston my friends Whitney, Selena, Gina and I held a session meant to be entitled “Women- are we holding ourselves back in New Media” but instead was entitled “Puma’s Cougars and Cocks-who wins?”
It was a very well attended and vibrant session-but I felt like I had sold out. It seems the only way to get women to attend an important discussion focused on their own prosperity was to couch it in male centric terms.
This past week I participated in SheParty, a virtual twitter cocktail hour meant to amplify women’s voices and alter the public discourse. This weeks’ discussion focused on the small numbers of women represented in the news media and marveled at how active women are in the Tea Party, but not when it comes to fighting for women’s equality.
During the SheParty I asked the Michigan Women’s Forum, “but where is our responsibility? Media is powerful but women make choices-why do we always choose male pov? ” Read Post
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