A New York City-based journalist, national public speaker, media critic and women’s historian, Beverly Wettenstein monitors daily the news coverage of women – or lack there of. She is the founder of the first annual “2006 Women and Major Magazines Cover Stories Monitor.” Reviewing every issue of Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, Newsweek and Time in 2006, she analyzed if a woman was the cover story subject, byline or photographer.

She is also the founder of the “Women in History and Making History Today – 365-Days-A-Year Database.” Hence, she is uniquely poised to give perspective on timely women’s news and issues. The message in her writing and speeches is “Celebrate Women Every Day!” She is the author of “A WOMAN’S BOOK OF DAYS,” the daily chronicle of “Female Firsts,” Fun Facts, and hundreds of popular and unknown women’s achievements (first edition, Crown; second edition, Barnes & Noble Books).

In her national speaking platform, “A Woman’s Place in the 21st Century,” Wettenstein bridges the generations with humor and history to tie-in with the top news stories. Her Letters to the Editor and Op-eds have been published in the Chicago Tribune, New York News, New York Times, TV Guide and Vanity Fair. She has been featured on CNN, WNYC-TV, WPIX-TV, AP, USA TODAY and New York Post.

A keen observer of pop culture, Wettenstein also created the “Celebrity Weddings and Love Stories – 365-Days-A-Year Database.” She explains, “My goal is to empower girls and women to take charge of their personal and professional lives.”

Wettenstein served as a Public Affairs executive with American Express, Citicorp and the Federal Home Loan Bank. Worldwide assignments have taken her to Europe, the Middle East, and, as Public Information Officer with Semester at Sea, around the world. As Special Contributor, she created and wrote the “HerStory” column in the Dallas Morning News, and received the EMMA, Exceptional Merit Media Award.

She has been honored for her service to women. As a volunteer, she conceived and developed the NYC bus route sign program and spearheaded the NY York Race for the Cure. Wettenstein donated her Glamour Award to invite students to the Matrix Awards. Currently, she is establishing libraries for girls in housing projects and community centers. The NYC pilot project will begin in five sites, with a national rollout.

Wettenstein earned her B.S. in Journalism at Temple University School of Business Administration. She is honored in the Fairfield (CT.) High School Wall of Fame.

Blog Entries by Beverly Wettenstein

Food for Thought: Who Are The Top Women Chefs? Who Are The Best New Women Chefs?

Posted November 10, 2009 | 09:40 PM (EST)


The chances of a woman making the annual Food & Wine Magazine 10 "Best New Chefs" list are slimmer than the models on the runways at New York Fashion Week. Hence, I am making it my mission to showcase women chefs, to raise their profiles and public awareness and industry...

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No Women Featured in NY Comedy Festival! No Joke!

5 Comments | Posted October 11, 2009 | 01:38 PM (EST)


We're With The Banned: Cracking The Crass Ceiling

The New York Comedy Festival ad features ten men and no women.

Broadly speaking, comedy is, obviously, still a male-dominated bastion within the entertainment business. The Primetime Emmy Awards showed that women writers on a comedy or variety series are a...

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"Media, We Have a Problem: Apollo 11 and NASA History Coverage Omits Women Astronauts"

5 Comments | Posted July 20, 2009 | 08:21 PM (EST)


"One Small Step For Man..." Who Is Missing From This Picture?

This week the media memorialized the 40th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 first manned mission to the moon. Alas, in all the press coverage, I saw no mention of the historic contributions of NASA's women astronauts....

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Valentine's "Cost of Loving" Increase Matches "Cost of Living" Increase

Posted February 10, 2009 | 12:47 PM (EST)


Take heart this Valentine's Day. My 2009 "Cost of Loving Index" notes that the price of romance is up 29 percent and matches the 29 percent "Cost of Living Index" increase in the decade from 1999 to 2009.

Isn't it romantic? I created the "Cost of Loving Index," comparing the...

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Second Annual "Women and Major Magazines Cover Stories Monitor"

Posted December 11, 2008 | 11:21 PM (EST)


The good news is that women collectively achieved high numbers of executive positions to warrant major magazines producing annual "Power" issues in 2007. Forbes published its fourth annual "100 Most Powerful Women in the World." Fortune celebrated its tenth annual "50 Most Powerful Women" in Business. Newsweek published its third...

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Joe the Plumber Vs. Lilly Ledbetter

Posted November 4, 2008 | 10:30 AM (EST)


Supreme Injustice: Vote for More Ledbetter Decisions or Better Led Decisions

Why is Joe the Plumber the media darling and Lilly Ledbetter, today's real-life Rosie the Riveter, and maverick reformer Supreme Court advocate for working women, ignored by the press?

All the media -- print, broadcast, cable, hard news, tabloid,...

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Is Sarah Palin a "Double Dutch Feminist?"

Posted October 31, 2008 | 12:32 PM (EST)


Sarah Palin is living the feminist dream. She came of age post-Title IX to play with the Wasilla Warriors HS basketball team. Graduating from college, she worked as a sports reporter at a local TV station. She was elected the first woman governor of Alaska in 2006. Less than two...

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Ode to Mother Sylvia -- Owed to Mother Sylvia

Posted May 9, 2008 | 03:00 PM (EST)


Our family story of "The Four Pillows" exemplifies the formidable perseverance and fortitude of my maternal foremothers.

Grandma Rose Gordon was 16 when she left Russia with two girlfriends to come to America. Her family was planning to join her later. But her father died in a fire and she...

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Divine Diva Intervention: The Myth of the Male Maestro

Posted September 28, 2007 | 02:59 PM (EST)


At last week's Tribute to Beverly Sills at the Metropolitan Opera House, celebrities, dignitaries, family, friends and fans eulogized the supreme soprano and extraordinary woman before a standing room audience of almost 4,000 admirers. Fans started lining up at 2 a.m. for tickets. However, one aspect of her esteemed career...

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Let Us Remember Alice Marble, the Catalyst for Althea Gibson to Break the Color Barrier

Posted August 30, 2007 | 06:55 PM (EST)


Althea Gibson's induction into the US Open Court of Champions this week, on the 50th anniversary of her historic title victory, was inspiring. The Opening Night Tribute, to celebrate living African-American women who have also broken barriers in sports, entertainment, politics and the arts, was impressive. Venus and Serena Williams...

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Few Women Cover Stories in Major Magazines

Posted August 21, 2007 | 02:54 PM (EST)


Few women were the subject of cover stories in the major news and business magazines in 2006, based on my first annual "Women and Major Magazines Cover Stories Monitor."

As a journalist and media monitor, I had noticed the deficit of women as magazines cover stories subjects. But I...

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