Stories by Sheila Gibbons
Sheila Gibbons is editor of Media Report to Women, a quarterly journal of news, research and commentary about women and media.
Though women make 85 percent of all consumer purchases, marketers rarely recognize the extent of women's buying power, technical savvy or confidence.
Posted on May 15, 2008
Wedding costs have doubled in 20 years and lavish destination weddings are up five-fold from a decade ago. The bridal media are courting women to consent to fantasy-land spending.
Posted on Aug 6, 2007
Only 22 states and Puerto Rico specifically prohibit employers from inquiring about applicants' marital status. That means "maternal profiling" is a real problem for many women.
Posted on Dec 27, 2006
Not all working women fare as well as high-profile mother-of-five Pelosi: How employer bias is going underreported and squeezing women out of the workplace.
Posted on Nov 29, 2006
Washingtonian Magazine's list of the Top 50 D.C. journalists is light on women and yes, it is meaningful.
Posted on Dec 20, 2005
Forbes' latest roster of the world's most powerful women reads like a list of who's
not making news.
Posted on Aug 26, 2005
Less than 4 percent of editorial cartoonists on major syndicates are female. It would almost be funny, if it didn't smack of sexism.
Posted on May 21, 2005
Science reporting on gender differences is remarkably different in conservative and liberal newspapers; depending on which you read, gender stereotypes are either confirmed or challenged.
Posted on Nov 23, 2004
The wives of modern presidential candidates are smart, independent women – but no one in the media seems to notice.
Posted on Aug 3, 2004
More magazine's content seems more geared to concealing the age of its forty-plus women readers than celebrating it.
Posted on Mar 16, 2004
The glass ceiling seems shatter-proof at media companies, where men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions, make higher salaries and sit on more boards.
Posted on Jan 21, 2004
Magazines aimed at teenage girls offer endless tips on how to look hot, right alongside cautionary tales of sexual excess.
Posted on Nov 4, 2003
The new Lifetime magazine promises to reach "real women," but recycles all that is tired, traditional and trite about women's media.
Posted on Jul 3, 2003
Despite decades of effort, the mainstream media are returning to such words as "mankind" and "firemen" in stories and headlines.
Posted on Mar 13, 2003
While print publications aimed at women are struggling to stay in business, their online sisters are booming.
Posted on Feb 27, 2003
Women offer the kind of reporting needed to cover modern warfare -- one in which the casualties are women and children more often than soldiers.
Posted on Nov 4, 2002
Women are in TV newsrooms in record numbers -- as reporters and directors -- yet networks continue to pick middle-aged white males to anchor their news programs.
Posted on Oct 15, 2002
