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‘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…
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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…
