“The Odyssey is about a man. It says so right at the beginning — in Robert Fagles’s 1996 translation, for example, the poem opens with the line, “Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns.””
Read: Historically, men translated the Odyssey. Here’s what happened when a woman took the job.
“In news that should be no surprise to anyone who follows the film industry, a new study has found that men speak more than twice as much as women in film, and often, the dialogue that is given to women helps reinforce gender and racial stereotypes.”
“In news that should be no surprise to anyone who follows the film industry, a new study has found that men speak more than twice as much as women in film, and often, the dialogue that is given to women helps reinforce gender and racial stereotypes.”
“Roughly 85% of corporate executives and board members are white men. This number hasn’t budged for decades, which suggests that white men are continuing to select and promote other white men.”
Read: Women and Minorities Are Penalized for Promoting Diversity
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“OK, @Google, you might have missed the point of @HiddenFigures. http://pic.twitter.com/s1DXn53c6G 7:40 PM – 14 Jan 2017 Seriously. What the fuck. @Google @HiddenFigures @Bibliogato @Google @HiddenFigures Noooooope. Nope nope nopenopnope.”
“If you finish watching a movie and let the ending credits scroll for a while, you’ll come across the actors who are merely identified as descriptors — “bridesmaid #1,” “man in donkey suit,” or “hot dog vendor.”
Read: Male film actors get jobs like “doctor” and “cop.” Women get “receptionist” and “party girl.”
“Blind by Design is a series focused on addressing systemic biases within design. Join us. Men dominate the design industry. I took a look at 27 design and engineering consulting firms with public information about their teams. Here’s what I found:”
“A new USC study has found that women had less than one-third of the speaking roles in the top-grossing films between 2007 and 2014 — another indication of the extent of Hollywood’s longstanding gender and diversity problems.”
Read: New facts on film’s ‘epidemic of invisibility’ for women, minorities