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.
An Italian university has banned Sir Tim Hunt from speaking at a conference because of “some hazardous occurrence” threatened by a local group of feminists. The silencing of the renowned scientist follows a recording of his now infamous toast finally surfacing in which laughter
We’re invited to believe, contrary to the evidence all around us, that the highly-progressive, socially-conscious and liberal-minded technology industry is in fact one of the most retrograde and oppressive places for women to work. But here’s the dirty secret about the shrill and insatiable “women in tech” movement: none of that is true.
Cliff Bleszinski, former design director for video game developer Epic Games and founder of Boss Key Productions, posted a vine in which he pinched the pop-out breasts of a mouse pad depicting an animé girl.
Professor Connie St Louis is dreadlocked, proud of her African heritage, a committed feminist, may have published the odd article in a newspaper and may possibly – though she’s a bit hazy on key details like, ahem, at which university
Pressure on University College London (UCL) is building to reinstate Sir Tim Hunt as an honorary professor as 20 fellows of the institution criticise the treatment of the Nobel Laureate. The fellows, including businessman Lord Jones of Birmingham, said the
“You’re not f*ckable.”
These are the three words Princess Diaries actress Heather Matarazzo said she was greeted with at just 19 years old, after she arrived as a hopeful new actress in the City of Angels.
The objectification of female super-heroines has long been a topic of discussion.
A British Nobel laureate, Sir Tim Hunt, 72, who won the Nobel Prize for his work on cell division, was forced out of honorary positions at University College London (UCL), the Royal Society, and the European Research Council (ERC) after
Actress Rose McGowan announced Wednesday she was dropped from her acting agency because she criticized a wardrobe description for a role she planned to audition for in an upcoming Adam Sandler film.
This weekend sees arguably the high point of the music festival year – Glastonbury – and naturally one of the main things that is exercising the liberal media is the disgracefully small proportion of female artistes on the bill. Yes,
A leaked EU report has shown that Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sir Tim Hunt, who was hounded out of his academic positions for making sexist remarks, was actually joking when he made the comments. Sir Tim was forced to resign from
The former head of Al Jazeera America’s documentary team is suing the network for millions of dollars, alleging that the Doha-based organization has extreme anti-women, pro-Arab, anti-Semitic biases, and promotes 9/11 truther conspiracy theories.
Newlywed actress Zoe Saldana says motherhood can be a challenge when you’re a star, because while major studios are shuffling the men around the world on jets, the ladies are still struggling to get a little help with daycare.
If you’re thinking of making an off-colour joke in modern Britain you’d be better off joining ISIS writes Douglas Murray in the Spectator. The point he makes is a good one. Whenever some idiot gets it into their head that
The way the media throw around accusations of sexism you’d think it was an epidemic. Perhaps it is because the biggest perpetrators of sexism are the media.
Following the apology from a Nobel Laureate after he claimed that “girls” in laboratories “cry when you criticise them”, Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos went on Sky News to talk about ‘Sexism in Science’.
My hero of the week is 72-year old Nobel-prizewinning scientist Sir Tim Hunt who this week went public at the World Conference of Science Journalists in Korea on the three main problems he has encountered during a lifetime working with
Comments about the Bangladeshi Prime Minister made by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi ignited a firestorm on Twitter this Sunday. “I am happy that the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, despite being a woman, is openly saying that she has zero tolerance for terrorism. I would like to congratulate Sheikh Hasina for her courage to deal with terrorism with zero tolerance,” Modi said at Dhaka University.
The largest LGBT advocacy organization in the country has a diversity problem, according to a report on the work environment at the Human Rights Campaign (HRC).
One of the most famous transgender individuals in America Laverne Cox released a statement on Tumblr in which she agreed with Breitbart Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro. Shapiro said in a column for Breitbart on Tuesday that it is ridiculous to portray Bruce Jenner as a womanly woman on the cover of Vanity Fair in order to make it more credible that Jenner is a woman. There are many transgenders who look nothing like women.
CD Projekt Red released its new action role-playing game, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, on May 19. The game garnered universal critical acclaim, receiving Metacritic scores of 92, 92, and 93/100 for its PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One releases, respectively. However, The Witcher 3 has become the latest installment in a dialogue concerning gender representation in video games.
Girls showrunner and actress Lena Dunham sounded off on everything from sexism in late-night TV to why she won’t cover her vagina on the set of her HBO show in a wide-ranging Hollywood Reporter roundtable discussion with some of the most prominent female comedians currently working in television.
Actress Frances McDormand, best known for her role in 1996’s Fargo, is speaking out about sexism at Cannes.
As Hollywood’s leading ladies and other prominent film and TV figures continue to sound off against the industry’s alleged misogynistic hiring practices, actress Jessica Lange feels entertainment’s gender issues go much deeper.
