After months of condemning pervasive sexual harassment and assault, we’ve arrived at the #MeToo backlash.
Back in October, when the allegations against Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey made it relatively easy to find your place on the battlefi…
Category: Gender Equality
BBC men joke about the gender pay gap in leaked conversation
A leaked transcript has revealed two male BBC journalists joking about the corporation’s gender pay gap just days after a female journalist resigned over the company’s culture of pay inequality.
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E! boss defends Catt Sadler’s wage gap and gets immediately called out
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Today in Men Make Excuses, the head of E! Entertainment, Frances Berwick, cited everything from “misinformation” to the role of “expertise” as reasons for the controversy over female host Catt Sadler getting paid nearly half as much as her male counterpart, Jason Kennedy.
Sadler left her long-standing position at E! late last month after becoming aware of the enormous pay gap and decided to take a stand as the industry’s culture of misogyny faces a seismic shift.
But in statements made at the Television Critics Association press tour on Tuesday, Berwick claimed that the two co-hosts, “had different roles, and therefore different salaries.” He went on to explain that, “Catt was focused on daytime; Jason Kennedy is on prime evening news, plus red carpet. Our employees’ salaries are based on their roles and their expertise, regardless of gender. So we wish Catt well, but I hope that sets the record straight on that.” Read more…
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View More E! boss defends Catt Sadler’s wage gap and gets immediately called outBarbra Streisand calls out female directors being overlooked in powerful Time’s Up speech
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Barbra Streisand couldn’t quite believe her ears when she was informed backstage that she was the only woman to ever win the Best Director award at the Golden Globes.
“Did I hear right?” she said, puzzled, on-stage when she recounted this anecdote prior to announcing the nominees for Best Motion Picture.
“I was the only woman—did I hear right?— the only woman to get the Best Director award,” Streisand said. “And, you know, that was 1984. That was 34 years ago.”
“Folks, time’s up!” Streisand bellowed. Read more…
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View More Barbra Streisand calls out female directors being overlooked in powerful Time’s Up speechDebra Messing calls out E!’s hypocrisy over gender equality straight to E!’s face
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Debra Messing definitively proved that the women of Hollywood are absolutely done being silent.
The Will and Grace star wasn’t afraid to let things get necessarily awkward when she kicked off her E! Golden Globes red carpet interview by calling out the network for its own hypocrisy with gender equality.
It began when host Giuliana Rancic asked her about the hottest topic of the night and past several months in: the industry — and world’s — reckoning with sexual harassment and assault. The two quickly got into the Time’s Up movement — a legal defense fund and group that hundreds of stars joined. Read more…
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Amy Schumer calls out ‘E! News’ for pay disparity ahead of Golden Globes
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Comedian Amy Schumer put E! News on blast and is encouraging others walking the red carpet at Sunday’s Golden Globes television and movie award show to do the same to promote pay equality.
Schumer said in an Instagram post she’ll be letting the entertainment network and audiences know she stands with Catt Sadler and equal pay for women in the entertainment industry and beyond.
Former E! News host Sadler left the network last month after learning her co-host — a man — made almost double what she did for the same job. Read more…
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Lewis Hamilton seeks forgiveness after mocking his nephew for wearing a dress
Lewis Hamilton has apologised after posting a video to social media where he mocked his nephew for wearing a dress.
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In the Instagram video, which has since bee…
Adobe claims it has finally closed the gender wage gap
In July 2016, female Adobe employees based in the U.S. were making 99 cents to every dollar that the company’s male employees were making. The software company vowed to close that pay gap by the end of the fiscal year.
On Thursday, Adobe announ…
How the Girl Scouts CEO went from rocket scientist to America’s biggest champion of girls
There are moments that Sylvia Acevedo, CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA, just can’t forget.
There was the time a college counselor at her high school in Las Cruces, New Mexico, scoffed at Acevedo’s desire to study engineering. “Girls like you …
This new film series will make you painfully aware of gender inequality in the art world
“In 1989, the Guerilla Girls counted the number of women represented in The Met’s modern art sections,” notes Artists for Gender Equality. “Less than 5 percent of the artists were women and 85 percent of the nudes were female.”
If you think Hollywoo…