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Women in Hollywood speak out about pervasive sexism. The New York Times asked 63 women who work in the film industry to discuss systemic discrimination they face. Women make up only four percent of directors hired by major studios.
The funniest women on television share their most sexist Hollywood moments
In a roundtable interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Lena Dunham (Girls), Amy Schumer (Inside Amy Schumer), Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin), Ellie Kemper (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Kate McKinnon (Saturday Night Live) and Tracee Ellis Ross (Black-ish) dished on sexism, racism, performing in comedy and still fighting the trope that women aren’t funny. Their discussion was as hilarious as it was thought provoking.
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One-hundred forty-four years ago today on May 10, 1872, Victoria Woodhull became the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
Manal al-Sharif (b. 1979) is the woman responsible for the campaign aimed at giving women the right to drive in Saudi Arabia. To initiate this movement, she filmed herself driving in the country, where it is illegal for women to do so; she was detained and released on bail on the condition of ceasing activity and not talking to media. Still, she remained an active voice pushing for women’s rights in the Middle East.
She is still campaigning heavily on social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook for the loosening of Saudi Arabia’s strict legislation, despite the risk associated with these activities. She was awarded the Vaclav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent by the Oslo Freedom Forum in 2012.
In a recent feature for Interview magazine, Emma Watson is continuing her fight against gender inequality. She goes on to say without one thing, inequality continues to have “this invisibility.”
I interviewed the one and only @roxanegay! I was SO nervous for this interview, but she was lovely and engaging, and I love how it turned out. Feeling #blessed once again for my great job today. My favorite quote:
Men should wake themselves up. They shouldn’t need a special woman sidekick to help them find the promise land. I think woke men are great, but sometimes they’re not really woke, they’re performing wokeness. What’s even worse is they want cookies, they want to be congratulated for being aware of their privilege and the benefit they have as they move through the world, and I’m not going to play that game with them.
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The idea for a natural hair beauty pageant came to Jessica Boyd and Maureen Ochola in 2013. Boyd, the owner of a brand development firm, and Ochola, an engineer, were both having trouble with their hair and how society perceived it. Miss Naturally Crowned seeks to change the conversation but also foster the professional talents of its participants in a major way.
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Karlie Kloss wants to teach young women how to code
The supermodel launched the Kode with Klossy summer camp, bringing coding education to almost 80 young women in New York, Los Angeles, and Kloss’s hometown of St. Louis.
The summer camp is meant to encourage young women to pursue computer science, a field in which women are largely underrepresented. Just 18 percent of computer science degrees are awarded to women, and representation at tech companies is just as low.
