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Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Gender Parity in Hollywood: Women, Minorities Tell Their Stories
Variety: At the heart of one of the entertainment industry’s most tumultuous years on record lies an urgent question: Is Hollywood serious about achieving gender parity beyond optics?
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Reesha A.
said...
Is Hollywood ready to establish gender equality? Will it ever realize the mistakes it has done to women and minorities? Did the #MeToo movement resonate and shake the roots of such gender parity in Hollywood? These are questions to which almost everyone wants to say a "yes", but unfortunately, the answer is a NO. A BIG NO. It is not necessarily only Hollywood that has gender parity. Every industry has that. Thats just part of the world we live in. But the reason why Hollywood is at the center of bad publicity is that it produces work that is visually influential. Whatever it makes has an effect on everyone. That includes stuff that happens behind the screens. What happens behind the screens is eventually talked about and hence people open their eyes to what they have been privy for the longest time but have not paid attention to. That is the reason why what has been happening in Hollywood of such importance. In such strength, Hollywood really needs to do some cleaning to be able to do justice to its workers and its audiences. Because the time has gone when people would just see the injustice happening and not speak up. They will, as they should also have!
This article touches on the sexual assault scandals that have been occurring within the entertainment industy and the lack of women who are in power. Before last year, neither of these things were particularly in the forefront of people's minds. Everything happened behind the scenes away from the public's view, so we just didn't really know. Now it is a huge deal and people are pushing for more and more equalization of the gender disparity. The sexual assault scandals have hit the entertainment industry really hard, causing rifts and splits between men and women and who is siding with who. I think this is one of the largest problems in this industry right now because people's beliefs are being challenged and there is so much finally coming to light after years of being kept away that all the bottled up emotions are not healthy. The women who have been sexually assaulted need some sort of reparations from the perpetrators.
2 comments:
Is Hollywood ready to establish gender equality? Will it ever realize the mistakes it has done to women and minorities? Did the #MeToo movement resonate and shake the roots of such gender parity in Hollywood?
These are questions to which almost everyone wants to say a "yes", but unfortunately, the answer is a NO. A BIG NO.
It is not necessarily only Hollywood that has gender parity. Every industry has that. Thats just part of the world we live in. But the reason why Hollywood is at the center of bad publicity is that it produces work that is visually influential. Whatever it makes has an effect on everyone. That includes stuff that happens behind the screens.
What happens behind the screens is eventually talked about and hence people open their eyes to what they have been privy for the longest time but have not paid attention to. That is the reason why what has been happening in Hollywood of such importance.
In such strength, Hollywood really needs to do some cleaning to be able to do justice to its workers and its audiences. Because the time has gone when people would just see the injustice happening and not speak up. They will, as they should also have!
This article touches on the sexual assault scandals that have been occurring within the entertainment industy and the lack of women who are in power. Before last year, neither of these things were particularly in the forefront of people's minds. Everything happened behind the scenes away from the public's view, so we just didn't really know. Now it is a huge deal and people are pushing for more and more equalization of the gender disparity. The sexual assault scandals have hit the entertainment industry really hard, causing rifts and splits between men and women and who is siding with who. I think this is one of the largest problems in this industry right now because people's beliefs are being challenged and there is so much finally coming to light after years of being kept away that all the bottled up emotions are not healthy. The women who have been sexually assaulted need some sort of reparations from the perpetrators.
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