The Directors Guild of America is out with the nominations for its 73rd annual DGA Awards for theatrical feature film and first-time feature. A diverse group of helmers including two women and three persons of color is vying for the marquee […]
Royetta Sanford oversaw the first international women’s conference for the Electrical Workers in 1997. Since then, she convened a committee on women’s issues and launched a department within the IBEW International Office […]
In a year of quarantine isolation and global tumult, storytelling has never felt more necessary as a portal to the world. To mark International Women’s Day, Variety offers a guide to female-centered stories that will reach big and small screens […]
Dee Dee Myers, a onetime White House press secretary and author of the book Why Women Should Rule the World, said she was “really taken aback” by the lack of women in senior decision-making roles when she arrived in Hollywood in 2014. […]
Nicole Jeup is an integral part of the United Association of Union Plumbers and Pipefitters’ Education and Training Department, specifically with the Veterans in Piping Program, which helps members of the military learn a trade and […]
Valerie King is an organizer with the Utility Workers and chairs the union’s Women’s Caucus. She has elevated women’s voices within the union and helped grow their visibility as members across the organization in a few short years. […]
The Annenberg Inclusion Initiative in collaboration with Netflix released its newest study on Friday, a first-of-its-kind look at inclusion across Netflix scripted series and films. The percentage of Black directors and writers both increased from 2018 to […]
A respected pillar of Tennessee’s labor community for nearly five decades, A.J. Starling has become synonymous with the fight for economic and racial equality. As both an advocate for and friend to working families throughout the state, his […]
Members of the LGBTQ community deserve to be free from discrimination in all forms. Thursday, we’re another step closer to that becoming a reality. While the Title VII Supreme Court decision barred job discrimination, the Equality Act would […]
Days ahead of its annual Golden Globe Awards, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has responded to criticism about the lack of diversity among its ranks. The group was the target of a scathing exposé by The Los Angeles Times on Sunday […]
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