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Celebrating Women - 7 March 2004

A quick perusal of Google's news site shows the only picture of a woman on the front page to be of Martha Stewart. Is that because, on the eve of International Women's Day, there are no women anywhere in the world newsworthy enough to make the front pages, or might it also have something to do with the dearth of women in leadership positions in the field of journalism? Probably something these folks are more qualified than me to answer. Some of the many organizations of women in media and journalism include the International Women's Media Foundation, the International Association of Women in Radio and Television, the African Women's Media Center, the Internet newspaper AfricaWoman, the Women's Media Centre of Cambodia, the Network of Women in Media, India, the Girls, Women + Media Project, WomensMedia.com, the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press, and the Journalism & Women Symposium (love their logo!), And did you know that, in late 2002, the National Women's History Project notes, the US Post Office released commemorative stamps featuring four women journalists?