In a thread on Twitter, the New York-based e-commerce company, which built its business on an inclusive, body-positive image, provided examples of videos it says TikTok removed. They predominately include curvy and non-white women.
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Yesterday, hundreds of Nike staff marched across its Beaverton, Oregon, campus calling for the company to better support and empower female athletes and employees. The protest was prompted by the reopening of a building named for track coach Alberto Salazar, who ran Nike’s Oregon Project and who has been accused by female athletes of physical and mental abuse under his leadership.
Fashion has shockingly few female CEOs
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While there are plenty of women in middle management roles in fashion, just 12.5% of clothing companies in the Fortune 1000 today have female CEOs. That’s less than companies in the aerospace and defense industries, which are about 20% female-led, and financial services, where 18% of companies have women as their chief executives.
A Brief History of Women’s Fight to Wear Pants
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“It becomes part of the culture in the West that pants are a male garment, and by the time we get to the 18th and 19th century, men have been wearing pants for centuries,” explains professor Gayle Fischer. “And so everyone knows that men have always worn pants—even though of course that’s not true.”
For International Women’s Day today, Nike released its latest version of the Curry 6 sneaker, in a color combo of purples and white, and more importantly, featuring a lining designed by Morrison. It shows two girls playing basketball, surrounded by phrases such as “Girls Hoop Too,” “Girl Power,” “Be Fearless,” and “Be the Change.”
Today, the clothes we wear remain a symbol of the struggles women face, only now the women making them tend to be almost entirely in poorer countries. On March 8, International Women’s Day, it’s worth pausing for a moment to consider those women.
French Politicians Pressured a Sports Brand into Ditching Plans to Sell a “Running Hijab”
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A spokesperson for Decathlon told the Independent that staff in its stores had “been insulted and threatened, sometimes physically,” and that on Tuesday morning (Feb. 26) its customer-service team got more than 500 calls and emails.
Vogue’s publisher, Condé Nast, has recently implemented its own 18-and-up policy, after the onslaught of #MeToo revelations led it to create a new global vendor code of conduct. The policy includes provisions to make sure models are working in safe environments and stipulates that no model younger than 18 will be shot for editorials, unless the person is the subject of an article, “in which case the model will be both chaperoned and styled in an age-appropriate manner.”