{"id":11185,"date":"2018-08-15T08:49:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T12:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatwillittake.com\/?p=11185"},"modified":"2021-07-02T12:56:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T16:56:09","slug":"women-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatwillittake.com\/initiatives\/women-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Women & Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Will It Take is proud to announce the launch of its Women & Media Initiative, which strives to raise awareness about the lack of women in media and to find ways to increase women\u2019s representation throughout the industry.<\/p>\n

To help kick off this initiative, we held a What Will It Take to Make Media that Advances Gender Equality?<\/b> event on August 23 in Beverly Hills. The launch event, at which a variety of media makers gathered, featured a panel conversation moderated by WWIT founder Marianne Schnall with Jennifer Siebel Newsom (Filmmaker; Founder & CEO, The Representation Project), Brenda Robinson (Women at Sundance Leadership Council; USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative) and Caroline Heldman (Political Science professor at Occidental College; Research Director of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media).<\/p>\n

This timely event was in partnership with First Lady of California Jennifer Siebel Newsom and her organization The Representation Project<\/a>\u00a0and addressed the influence media has on culture, the need for more women leaders and diversity in the media industry, and how media can drive gender equality.\u00a0 Special thanks to Shelley Zalis and The Female Quotient<\/a> for hosting us and their support of the event.<\/p>\n

Watch the highlights from the inaugural event<\/h5>\n