Caryl Rivers
SPEAKING CLIENT
Author, Selling Anxiety: How the News Media Scare Women, Journalist & Gender Issues Expert
Beyond Sugar & Spice: What Women Need to Hear Today
Nancy Pelosi is the Speaker of the House and Hillary Clinton is a major contender for the presidency. According to the US Labor depart, 40 percent of managerial jobs are held by women, who also fill the majority of seats in college classrooms. Yet the more that women advance, the gloomier the news about them and their achievements becomes. Caryl Rivers, professor of Journalism at Boston University, has been tracking these major media narratives over the past decade for her new book, Selling Anxiety: How the News Media Scare Women, and at the podium she reveals the compelling facts of the gender contradictions of modern life as portrayed by the media.
Caryl Rivers has been observing American life and politics for more than three decades. She was a Washington correspondent, and as a commentator, she has chronicled the women’s movement and the divides over race, class, and gender that have often convulsed the nation. Caryl Rivers is the author of many books including Slick Spins and Fractured Facts: How Cultural Myths Distort the News; Indecent Behavior; She Works, He Works: How Two Income Families are Happy, Healthy and Thriving (a collaboration with Rosalind Barnett); and Camelot, a novel set in the Kennedy administration. Her television drama A Matter of Principal won a Gabriel Award as one of the best television dramas of the year.
Caryl Rivers contributes regularly to The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsday, BUST, and many major U.S. newspapers and magazines. She is a frequent public affairs panelist on Boston television stations and is considered an expert on the Kennedy family.
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