Last week, a Saudi Arabian woman named Najla al-Hariri drove for four straight days "to defend her belief that Saudi women should be allowed to drive," but was eventually arrested anyway. "I don't fear being arrested because I am setting an example that my daughter and her friends are proud of,'' she said. This week, Manal al-Sharif did the same, filming her efforts (above) and plotting a June 17 "drive-in" protest. On Sunday, al-Sharif was arrested, too, thus mobilizing the protest movement even more.

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​Bloomberg View, the forthcoming editorial page at Bloomberg News -- under the umbrella of the media and data company Bloomberg L.P., founded and owned by Michael Bloomberg, New York City's three-term billionaire mayor -- has finally released its list of high-powered editorial board members and columnists. It's so impressive! Some of them have worked for U.S. presidents, some for Ivy League schools and the rest have written important books. The View, which includes marquee names like Peter Orszag, Jonathan Alter, Ezra Klein and Jeffrey Goldberg, will put out two unsigned editorials every day. Predictably, though, most of the people signed on are white men, leaving us a little bit disappointed considering the opportunity at hand: building a team of anyone, from anywhere, for a highly influential company that made $7 billion last year. Find out exactly who's involved in a Friday edition of our media column, Press Clips, plus more on Michael Arrington and the White House Correspondents' Association dinner.More >>

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​Did you win a Pulitzer Prize today? Us either. If you're from the Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald or The Tennessean, you also did not win, even though you were in fact nominated in the category of Breaking News Reporting. That $10,000 prize -- "For a distinguished example of local reporting of breaking news, with special emphasis on the speed and accuracy of the initial coverage, using any available journalistic tool, including text reporting, videos, databases, multimedia or interactive presentations or any combination of those formats, in print or online or both..." -- went to no one. That might just be the most exciting part of today's Pulitzer Prize announcements, unless you are related to a winner or work for a winner or are a winner (in which case, get back to work). Or if you really like Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad, which we did. Additional information, plus some more thrilling local media news, in our afternoon Press Clips column.

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​According to a new McKinsey report covered in the Wall Street Journal, women get way less ambitious around middle age. "About 64% of women ages 45 to 54 years old expressed a desire to advance professionally, compared with 78% of the men in the same age range. The comparable figures were 92% and 98%, respectively, for women and men aged 23 to 34."

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​When Pakistan's version of satirical news source The Onion, known as Roznama Jawani, posted a joke story entitled "'Padded Bras Are Devil's Cushions' says Council of Islamic Ideology," Fox's (openly) conservative website Fox Nation was too quick to provide a rewrite, which began in earnest, "The Council of Islamic Ideology in Pakistan has protested the use of padded and colorful bras by Muslim women, and recommended that Pakistani Muslim researchers should try to invent an innerwear that makes female assets unnoticeable." The truth-seekers at Salon noticed the big oops, which has since been removed. Maybe that's why Fox Nation is being extra careful with news of a new Al-Qaeda magazine for women. That one, though, appears legit.

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​The battle between breast-feeding "emporium" The Upper Breast Side and the once man-only "lodge"-cum-apartment building the Pythian is too perfect. The store, which sells pumps and outfits for new mothers and houses a unified safe space, charged its building owners with discrimination after they complained about an open door. The big brass gateway into the land of motherhood, owner Felina Rakoswki-Gallagher told the New York State Division of Human Rights, "was too heavy for pregnant women and stroller-pushing mothers to open safely." And now it's war!

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​At the beginning of 2011, the writer and reader Anne Hays published a much-discussed open letter to The New Yorker, decrying the lack of female voices in recent issues and demanding a refund should the gender imbalance not at least move toward righting itself. In the weeks since, the women's literary group Vida published a report detailing "the truth of publishing disparities" across the media landscape at magazines and journals like The Atlantic, Harper's and the New York Review of Books. (In short: women are criminally unrepresented.) But the growing chorus of voices, especially online, hit a rather pleasant high note today when it comes to intelligent discussion on the matter, as writer and editor Megan Carpentier writes fairly on "the media glass ceiling," while another editor launches a new blog called Lady Journos, which "highlights the work of journalists who happen to be women." More positivity -- plus, how Britney Spears and homosexuals combined to confuse journalists (and much more!) -- inside Press Clips, our daily media round-up.

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​The more sexy a man finds a reporter or newscaster, the less likely he is to call her qualified for serious reporting, according to a study from the Indiana University's Communication Research, as relayed by Salon. The set-up had a 24-year-old woman perform a report on war or politics twice, once without formfitting clothes and again in an outfit meant to show off her waist-to-hip ratio. As her waist-to-hip ratio went up, her credibility went down, but only among men. Which reminds us, unfortunately, of Fox News' Roger Ailes, in light of the confessions of a former Fox News employee, who claims that the network just flat out makes stuff up.

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​Less than 15 percent of Wikipedia's hundreds of thousands of unpaid contributors -- responsible for over 3.5 million articles in English -- are female, according to an article on the front page of today's New York Times. The exact figure hovers somewhere around 13 percent women and the average age is, unsurprisingly, in the mid-20s, via a study last year by the United Nations University and Maastricht University. Wikipedia hopes to raise its female contributors to 25 percent by 2015, while Wikipedia's current contributors hope to someday have a date. And to learn who Manolo Blahnik is!

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​"It's a boys club." You've heard it about almost every industry imaginable; it's always true. The tech world, though, is a special sort of sausage club. The global TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) conferences, held annually since 1990, aim to give a stage to ambitious social entrepreneurs with potentially world-changing ideas, all with a technological bent. Unfortunately, but not unpredictably, it skews male. Take, for instance, their tag page for "women"; it's underwhelming. But they have a solution! It's a conference just for women and it's this December in Washington, D.C. That's what women want, right? Something for themselves? It's called TEDWomen.

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