Women’s March on Jan. 20, 2018 in Seneca Falls, New York

The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 was the first women’s rights convention held in the United States. The Women’s March on Washington was likely the largest single-day demonstration in recorded U.S. history. In the case of women, an alternative point of view can be even more marginalized in terms of issues and coverage. Feminists were portrayed as disorganized, in protest conflicts that lessen their femininity, and with pejorative labels. Armstrong and Boyle examined news coverage of women in abortion protests from 1960-2006, finding men as sources predominant in coverage before and after the Roe v. Wade decision.