“One of the major goals of this project is just to show this rich history of women being pioneers,” says designer Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya. Not giving these women their due spotlight is a “disservice to all young women out there who are wondering if they can make a career in STEM. Seeing women—especially women who look like them—is incredibly important in encouraging.”
Equity at the Table is a tool that refocuses the narrative of food media and makes women more visible; it says that female chefs, sommeliers, and restaurant owners are interesting in their own right—and not just as the victims of badly behaved men. While it’s unlikely that we’ve seen the end of sexual misconduct in the food world, founder Turshen is part of a wave of creative thinking that is changing the industry.
ITV joined forces with the male suicide prevention charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) to showcase the art installation, made by American artist Mark Jenkins and his collaborator, Sandra Fernandez. Dubbed “Project 84,” the sculptures are meant to represent the 84 men who take their own lives every week in the UK. Suicide is the single biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK, with three in four of all suicides being male.
The musical, which boasts an all women-of-color cast, is being dubbed as Britain’s answer to Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s smash hit musical which tells the story of one of America’s founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton. “All of us didn’t feel hugely like we can connect with the story [of the suffragettes],” says co-creator and writer Rebecca Phillips (who goes by the stage name Omahrose). “We didn’t see our own faces in these women who did some incredible things.”
The residential real estate industry is largely made up of women; most top residential firms are women-led, and the National Association of Realtors reports that over 60% of realtors are female. In New York, a city dense with luxury real estate, women head up most nearly all major brokerages. But you wouldn’t know this watching real estate television—a robust business of reality shows in the US, but also in the UK, Canada, and Australia, that mostly features male agents.
The American beauty brand Hard Candy, sold exclusively at Walmart, applied for a trademark for #MeToo to sell cosmetics and fragrances on Oct. 20. (As with many trademark applications in waiting, this one went under the radar for months—until TMZ broke the story last week.) It’s a move that was at best misguided and at worst cravenly opportunistic, and one that appears to co-opt the movement that activist Tarana Burke started, sans hashtag, in 2006.
American black women aren’t just more likely to identify as feminine; research shows they are also more likely to embrace feminism. This was highlighted in a 2007 study that found that black women were more interested in traditionally feminine behaviors such as wearing attractive clothing than their white counterparts, and also were more likely to describe themselves as feminists. The researchers point to decades of previous studies showing that black women tend to identity as feminists more than white women.