I work on a women's weekly radio show on Pacifica/KPFA and I was trying to think of what to do for last Monday, when I ran across the Project Censored List of Top 25 Censored Stories of 2009-2010. Guess how many of those 25 stories related to a women's or gender issue?
You guessed it: NOT ONE.
Does that mean women's issues get lots of attention? I don't think so. But it does point to the masculinist bias of even the progressive media and media watchdogs.
So I built the show around a dozen or so women's or gender issues that I feel were short-shrifted last year.
A few of them were:
The impact of seven years of occupation on Iraqi women
New guidelines for who should get mammograms and how often
Shackling of pregnant women prisoners in California
The possible linkage of a class of retrovirus with Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome
The imprisonment of women political leaders in Rwanda and Iran
Check out my list, and let me know what you would have put on yours.