‘Hire Her Back’ Campaign Aims To Promote Gender and Racial Equality
Hire Her Back’ Campaign Aims To Promote Gender, Racial Equality As Hollywood Reopens Amid Coronavirus A new “Hire Her Back” campaign is pushing for film and TV jobs to go to women and people of color as Hollywood productions resume amid the pandemic. The multimedia initiative and its related “Hire Her Back Fund” were announced Wednesday by the nonprofit group Women In Film Los Angeles (WIF). The grant program, administered by The Actors Fund, will provide money to women in the industry “whose livelihoods have been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic,” WIF said in a statement. Women & BIPOC are disproportionately impacted in times of crisis. So we’re launching…
Pandemic Impacts Entrepreneuring Women at Work and Home
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all business owners. The Diana International Research Institute (DIRI) team wanted to uncover just how it impacted a specific category of business owners: women. “Women business owners have been particularly hard hit by the pandemic crisis on both the business and home fronts,” said Amanda Elam, Diana International Research Institute fellow, Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership at Babson College. The first of several pulse surveys from Babson’s DIRI was designed to better understand how women entrepreneurs are leading during this global crisis. It found that for a majority of responders—67.4%—revenue had declined. Only 8.1% saw an increase because their product/service fitted needs in the new…
Being Productive What Does That Really Mean?
Living a life of productivity is definitely a worthy pursuit. However, the term is thrown around so much nowadays that the actual definition has lost its importance. “Productivity” has become yet another catch phrase used in employee training seminars and self-help techniques. Many people have an obscured understanding of what it means to be productive, wasting valuable time that could be allocated far more effectively. This in due in part to the fast-paced, results driven nature of our society. We are expected to produce more in less time than probably ever before. Unfortunately, this can often have the opposite effect. More than anything else we possess; our time is our…
Why Women And Girls Matter
“It’s still too easy to make gender equality merely an ‘add on’ to [aid] programs,” says CARE Australia CEO Dr Julia Newton-Howes. Here, she outlines three approaches that have enabled change in some of the world’s poorest communities. The majority of the world’s poorest people are female. They are more likely than their brothers to miss school to help with household chores, more likely to suffer neglect and poor nutrition in childhood, more at risk of violence and sexual abuse. They are less likely to own, control or inherit assets and face many other hurdles unique to their gender. These arise because most societies value boys more than girls and…
Paul Tudor Jones Says Companies Can No Longer Exist Just To Maximize Profits
Longtime hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones on Wednesday critiqued the long-held belief that companies should exist for the sole purpose of generating profits. Jones, whose remarks came during a JUST Capital event with CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin, said it’s that philosophy that allows corporate boards to neglect issues of equity in the workplace and ultimately undermine the stability of broader U.S. society. “When you just look and say that the only thing that a company has to worry about is making a profit, it gives that company a pass not to pay attention to pay equity, not pay attention gender equity, not to pay attention to racial equality. Not to…
Fullerton Protest Unites For Equality
Fullerton City Hall was a place of unity and love that took place on Saturday. The peaceful protest brought out many to support progressive initiatives in an effort to make the city a better place for all. One of the protest organizers Faith Forcucci-Morris, a Fullerton College alumnus, was grateful for the participation of more than 1,500 protesters fighting for equality on Highland Avenue and Commonwealth Avenue. Protesters spilled out into the street on Commonwealth Ave to chant to passing vehicles. Photo credit: Jocelyn Rabadan After attending the first Fullerton protest, Forcucci-Morris believed that there needed to be another protest to share the message of social injustice. “I didn’t see…
Girls Empowerment – Empower the World of a Girl
There are too many girls living with low self-esteem. And low self-esteem can not only block her success as a girl, but it can also block her success as she continues to grow into a young lady and beyond. If you are a female you can become someone who can and will help empower the world of a girl. There is a girl somewhere who needs you. Many of us as women understand the challenges that young girls deal with and we can empower them for breakthroughs and life success. The time to equip girls for life success is now, not when she gets older, but now. This time in…
