The Commission on the Status of Women section of the proceedings contains the following 8 selected papers: "Perverse Public Panoptican: Content Analysis of Male and Female Patient Images in Reproductive Health News Reports" (Marie Dick); "The Olympic Ideal: A Content Analysis of the Coverage of Olympic Women's Sports in San Francisco Bay Area Newspapers" (Greg Mellen and Patricia Coleman); "Naming Rape Victims and Survivors: A U.S. Newsroom Policy Study, 2000" (Kim E. Karloff); "Portrayals of Wife Abuse in the 'New York Times,' 1915 & 1925" (Ginger L. Park); "A Descriptive Analysis of NBC's Coverage of the 2000 Summer Olympics" (C. A. Tuggle, Suzanne Huffman, and Dana Scott Rosengard); "Title IX Babies, Sports Media and Attitudes toward Women in Sports and Society" (Paula Whatley Matabane and Bishetta D. Merritt); "Home Court Disadvantage?: Examining the Coverage of Female Athletes on Leading Sports Websites--A Pilot Study" (Tara M. Kachgal); and "Resuscitating Feminist Audience Studies: Revisiting the Politics of Representation and Resistance" (Radhika E. Parameswaran). (RS)