Following a year where the topic of gender bias in Hollywood at times took center stage, a production company aimed at empowering women in film and TV has been launched by Jessica Chastain, Queen Latifah, and a slew of other big name industry women.
Actress Kirsten Stewart has a message for women in Hollywood who are still consumed with the industry’s “boring” gender pay gap conversation: do something about it.
Ricky Gervais stole the show as host of the 73rd annual Golden Globe Awards Sunday night, mixing his signature brand of politically incorrect humor with some sharp barbs aimed at Hollywood’s best and brightest.
On Friday, far-left New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd published a 7,000 word essay on sexism in the entertainment industry. In an interview with TheWrap, the award-wining writer slammed Hollywood as a “sick society—like the Catholic Church and Saudi Arabia.”
As Hollywood’s gender and wage inequalities remain at the forefront of a national conversation, actress Kate Winslet says discussing wages in public is “vulgar,” and she wants no part of it and has no complaints herself about sexism in Hollywood.
While discussing wage inequality for women in Hollywood, actress Sandra Bullock said she’s glad the film industry is being held accountable for its business practices.
Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock has been cast as the lead in an all-female reboot of the 2001 Vegas heist film, Ocean’s Eleven.
Academy Award-winning actress Rachel Weisz is tackling Hollywood ageism with a bit of unconventional, old school feminine attitude: If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.
Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard introduced a new conversation regarding feminism this week, arguing the term is divisive and “separates” women from men.
Actress Helen Mirren says the film industry’s sexism is a problem that is both deep-rooted and part of a larger issue within society’s perspective of women.
Age is just a number, unless you happen to be a bottle of fine wine or a Hollywood actress. Leftovers star Liv Tyler is the latest to claim the industry values one over the other.
Despite more overall awareness of Hollywood’s gender inequality issues, women have made no progress in recent years, and have actually lost ground, according to Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson.
