Today at Ms. | November 10, 2021


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2021 Election Scorecard: The Women Who Won [[link removed]]

BY KAYCIE GORAL and PAIGE CHAN | Last week’s election was a night of firsts, shifting tides and upsets. Here’s our scorecard for how women fared in the 2021 elections.
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The Media Gender Gap: Gender and Racial Inequality Persist in the Newsroom [[link removed]]

BY PAT MITCHELL | Newsrooms and media journalism have historically been white male-dominated spaces—and despite vast amounts of progress for women and people of color, inequalities between genders persist and representation is declining. In 1972, I was among some of the first women who got the opportunity—and the challenge—to prove better representation meant better news, more inclusive programming and more viewers.
A recent report from the Women’s Media Center found that in media prime time weekday evening news broadcasts are the most equitable, while print newspapers are the least.

A Vocal—and Wealthy—Minority Is Controlling Abortion Access [[link removed]]

BY IAN VANDEWALKER and MIRA ORTEGON | Conservatives have relentlessly focused on reshaping the Supreme Court for decades. And now, they’ve allowed Texas’s six-week abortion ban to stand for months because a handful of oil and gas tycoons exerted massive influence over Texas politics by funneling millions into statehouse races.
To a large extent, this stunning outcome is a story of democratic failures and the power of big money in American politics.
(Click here to read more from our special series in collaboration with the Brennan Center: "Abortion is Essential to Democracy") [[link removed]]


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Tune in for a new episode of Ms. magazine's podcast, On the Issues with Michele Goodwin on Apple Podcasts [[link removed]] + Spotify [[link removed]] .
In this episode, we are on the ground with the American Constitution Society (ACS) for a show with Colorado state Representative Leslie Herod and Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford. Along with host Michele Goodwin, Herod and Ford discuss being Black in public office: namely, how they deal with the challenges and demands while staying true to themselves.
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