From Teen Vogue authored by Andrea Park: “In the past few years, Lady Gaga has spoken out time and again about the mental and physical pain she’s experienced due to her fibromyalgia, mental health issues, and ongoing trauma from the sexual assault she experienced at age 19. On Monday night, while being honored at Elle‘s Women in Hollywood event in Los […]
Category Archives: Women in Entertainment
How We’ll Win – The Visionaries
From Quartz at Work: “This is not a list: It’s a collection of insights from visionaries around the world aimed at anyone committed to empowering women. In a series of interviews, these women laid bare their struggles, revealed their secrets to success, and told us about their next big idea. Whether she’s launching her career […]
How the ’90s Tricked Women Into Thinking They’d Gained Gender Equality
From TIME authored by Allison Yarrow: “As the 90s dawned things were looking up for women. Daughters of second-wave feminism came of age and chose new paths unavailable to their mothers: delaying marriage and children, pursuing higher education, joining the workforce, and assuming independence and identities outside of the home. The gaps between men and women in education “have […]
Thousands of Migrant Children Are Being Separated From Their Families at the Border. Here’s How to Help Them
From TIME authored by Alix Langone: “Nearly 2,000 migrant children have been separated from their parents at the border as part of the Trump administration’s controversial “zero-tolerance” policy on border crossings — and many people are still looking for ways to help the families, even as the White House acted to adjust that policy on Wednesday. President […]
All Hail the Women Who Just Bought The Weinstein Company
From She Knows authored by Christina Marfice: “It probably would have been easy to just let Harvey Weinstein’s embattled company, The Weinstein Company, fall into bankruptcy, ending the disgraced producer’s long legacy of abusing women. But that would have provided no help or closure, plus it would have taken jobs from the 150 people the […]
Firsts Women Who are Changing the World
From TIME presented by Ford: ‘She broke the glass ceiling.’ “What a jagged image we use for women who achieve greatly, defining accomplishment in terms of the barrier rather than the triumph. There she is up where the air is thin, where men still outnumber women, but where the altitude is awesome. Our goal with Firsts, […]
Ann Curry Wasn’t Surprised When She Heard About the Matt Lauer Allegations
From She Knows authored by Christina Marfice: “Updated Jan. 17, 2018, 8:00 a.m. PT: Well, we knew Ann Curry’s first interview in five years was going to be revealing. We just didn’t know how deep she would actually go. On CBS Good Morning today, Jan. 17, Curry finally opened up about her ouster from NBC in […]
Oprah’s Night at the Golden Globes Shined a Light on Her Epic Career. Here’s What We Know About Her Money
From Time authored by Alix Langone: “Oprah Winfrey did more than make history Sunday when she became the first black woman to receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 75th annual Golden Globe awards. She gave an impassioned acceptance speech, championing women and the #MeToo and Time’s Up initiatives. She spoke about growing up poor in Milwaukee […]
At the Golden Globes, Stars and Their Activist Guests Talk About Why They Fight
From The New York Times authored by Valeriya Safronova: “They wore black and they arrived in pairs. Eight actresses showed up on the Golden Globes red carpet with eight activists as their guests in a move intended to bring more attention to sexual harassment and gender inequality across the spectrum of professions. The decision was part of a […]
Hollywood’s Once and Future Classic
From Time authored by Eliza Berman: “’Dear Mr. Disney’— That’s how a 10-year-old girl named Catherine began her letter to the most powerful man in movies during the bitter, final months of 1963. She had experienced that year’s traumas like most children do, through the anxious whispers of adults, despair moving a few feet above her […]
