It’s Time To Represent the Real Me

Miss Representation is the award-winning documentary film that exposes how mainstream media contributes to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power and influence in America. The film challenges the media’s limited and often disparaging portrayals of women and girls, which make it difficult for women to achieve leadership positions and for the average woman or girl to feel powerful herself.

MissRepresentation.org is a non-profit social action campaign and media organization established to shift people’s consciousness, inspire individual and community action, and ultimately transform culture so everyone, regardless of gender, age or circumstance can fulfill their potential.

How We Are Making A Difference Together

  • Using social media, women and girls are speaking out, telling their stories and influencing change. Men and boys are standing up to sexism, countering hyper-masculinity and championing women as leaders.
  • Schools are using the Miss Representation‘s Curriculum to educate youth around media literacy and to inspire and activate students to make change.
  • Communities are hosting screenings and discussions to shift the cultural mindset around gender and end sexism.
  • Consumers are using their power to celebrate positive media and advertising, and challenge negative media and advertising.

Learn more about who we’re working with: here.

Watch Director Jennifer Siebel Newsom speak at the 2011 TEDXWomen’s Conference.

You can’t be what you can’t see"

- Marian Wright Edelman, Founder & President Children’s Defense Fund

We have enormous power. Eighty-six percent of the purchasing power in this country is in the pockets of women. Well, let’s use it."

- Pat Mitchell, CEO Paley Center for Media

The media can be an instrument of change: it can maintain the status quo and reflect the views of the society or it can, hopefully, awaken people and change minds. I think it depends on who’s piloting the plane.”

- Katie Couric, Journalist

 
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    Coalition Asks Facebook to Address Violence Against Women On Site

    A group of leading women’s rights organizations from around the world, including MissRepresentation.org, have signed an open letter to Facebook asking the company to do a better job of monitoring hate speech directed at women and girls within their massive social networking site. Excerpt: We, the undersigned, are writing to demand swift, comprehensive and effective [...]

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