Eva Mendes, Jessica Alba Share Advice For Female Entrepreneurs Jessica Simpson, Eva Mendes, Jessica Alba, Lauren Conrad And Hannah Skvarla Share Their Advice For The Next Generation Of Female Entrepreneurs. By Yola Robert Create & Cultivate brought their highly anticipated conference back to Los Angeles for a one-day event filled with educational and inspiring panels, pop-ups, keynote speakers, mentor power…
NY Mets to Celebrate Women in Sports with Women’s Day FLUSHING, N.Y., August 8, 2022 – The New York Mets will host their first Women’s Day at Citi Field on Wednesday, August 10 when they take on the Cincinnati Reds at 1:10 p.m. Led by the Mets female driven employee resource group, “She-Unit”, Women’s Day at Citi Field will be a…
Poorna Jagannathan Reflects On Season 3 of ‘Never Have I Ever’ By Shrishty Mishra As the third season of Netflix’s coming-of-age comedy Never Have I Ever makes its debut the stars of the series looks back at its cultural significance as well as what it means to them. The series created by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher follows a 15-year-old Indian-American Tamil girl, Devi (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan)…
Gender Equity is Key to Environmental Sustainability By Jamie L. Gloor, Eugenia Bajet Mestre, Corinne Post, and Winfried Ruigrok As the climate crisis becomes increasingly urgent, organizations around the world have begun investing in a wide array of environmental sustainability initiatives. Some of these efforts target technological solutions, while others prioritize behavioral or economic changes, but what the vast majority have in common is a…
Make Women’s Equality Day a National Holiday Source: National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites August 26th is the anniversary of women in the United States winning the constitutional right to vote in 1920. In 1973, Congress recognized this important historic date by declaring it as Women’s Equality Day. Although this is a landmark date, many Americans are still unaware of its existence…
14 Times Women Were Paid Less Than Their Male Co-Stars By Delilah Gray The gender pay gap is still prevalent, even in the entertainment industry. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, women still earn 82 cents for every dollar a man earns. Sadly, in the film industry, it’s not uncommon for male leads to get paid exponentially more than female leads. Heck, even…
Oscars Apologizes to Actress Sacheen Littlefeather After 50 Years By Malu Cursino The Academy has apologised to Sacheen Littlefeather, a Native American activist and actress booed off stage at the Oscars nearly 50 years ago. She appeared on live TV in 1973 to refuse an Oscar on behalf of Marlon Brando, who had won the best actor prize for The…
‘Invest in Women’: Female Athletes on Ownership in Professional Sports By Lindsay Schnell As a player in the WNBA, Renee Montgomery didn’t think much about who operated the league’s 12 teams. “I wasn’t thinking about ownership, I was only thinking about championships,” Montgomery, the fourth overall pick in the 2009 draft, told USA TODAY Sports. But when a unique opportunity arrived in…
Emmy Nominees on Playing Characters Based on Real Women By Hunter Ingram A television star violated by the public eye. A whistleblower with ulterior motives. An inventor who wasn’t as revolutionary as she advertised. A woman whose shocking death became a sensation. A con artist with a flair for the dramatic. A young mother providing for her daughter one housekeeping…
Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library How a core team of 15 and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world By Stephen L. Betts Dolly Parton is many things to so many people: singer-songwriter, actress, humorist, icon. But to nearly 2 million kids around the world, she’s their librarian. Since 1995,…
