Jill Miller Zimon presented this PowerPoint at "Dirty Politics" Poynter Kent State Media Ethics Workshop on 9/20/12; includes videos: "Sexism Sells But We're Not Buying;" Ed Schultz on Sarah Palin as a mother; Donny Deutsch & Palin as the "feminist ideal," Dar Williams "Cool As I Am"

1. Dirty Politics?
The Poynter Kent State Media Ethics Workshop 2012
September 20, 2012
Kent State University, Kent Ohio
Not Your Mother’s Politics: Women & Gender
Jill Miller Zimon
The Civic Commons
Council Member, City of Pepper Pike
Blogger, Writes Like She Talks

2. Sexism Sells But
We’re Not Buying It

3. Equal Opportunity Offending

4. Including all the members of
the media who have asked if
Paul Ryan, as a father of three
young children, would be able
to handle being Vice
President.
Oh, wait.

6. We wish it was *just* a novelty…

7. But the media’s making it business, too.

8. Then there’s the substance of the coverage…
Reporter obsessed with
candidate’s shoes
NYT, 8/24/12, A18
Moms asking reporters to stop
being obsessed
5MinutesforMom.com

9. http://www.nameitchangeit.org/

10. Additional Resources:
• Change the Ratio (focus is tech field, Rachel Sklar)
• Elect Women (focus is politics, Kathy Groob)
• Ms. Representation (published by the Women’s Campaign Fund)
• Women’s eNews (EIC is Rita Jensen Henley)
• Women in Media and News (founded and run by Jennifer Pozner)
• The Women's Media Center (founded in 2005 by Jane Fonda, Robin
Morgan, and Gloria Steinem)
• Women, Action & the Media | WAM! | Center for New Words (co-founded
by Jaclyn Friedman and Laura Zimmerman)

11. Thank you:
Joanne Bamberger
Gloria Feldt
Jennifer Pozner
Rachel Sklar
Previous music video is Dar Williams singing
her song, “Cool As I Am”