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The true story of the women who made ‘The Daily Show’ — and were ‘erased’ from its legacy
Meredith Blake /
The Los Angeles Times
“It’s astounding how many people don’t know that two women created ‘The Daily Show,’” says Lizz Winstead, one of the iconic show's co-creators. “Madeleine [Smithberg] and I did a lot of work to lay out this cool show. It exists for a reason — because we worked for hardly any money to make it happen.”
Players believe a woman is ready to be an NBA coach, so why don’t their front offices?
Thuc Nhi Nguyen /
The Los Angeles Times
“Gender balance in corporate America or on a board is seen as a business imperative; that’s it’s good for business,” said Nicole LaVoi, the director at Minnesota’s Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport. “But in sports, we’re really behind the times.”
California poised to pay compensation to victims of forced sterilization
Adam Beam /
The Los Angeles Times
California is poised to approve reparations of up to $25,000 to people who decades ago were among the thousands of residents — some as young as 13 — sterilized by the state because officials deemed them unfit to have children. The proposal is unique because it would apply to more than just victims of the eugenics law that was repealed in 1979. The state also would pay female prison inmates who were coerced into getting sterilized.
How Joni Mitchell shattered gender barriers when women couldn’t even have their own credit cards
Jessica Hopper /
The Los Angeles Times
While the genius of Joni Mitchell is now a settled matter, when she first arrived in Los Angeles in 1967 there was only the idealized moniker “a girl with everything", meaning that she could sing, play an instrument, write a song and, of course, that she was blond and thin and pretty. Such was the world of gendered low expectations that Joni Mitchell’s career was born into.
What’s size got to do with it? Mocking a man’s manhood spurs a reverse #MeToo in South Korea
Victoria Kim /
The Los Angeles Times
The pinching hand, once used as a logo by a now-defunct radical feminist group, has become a point of contention in a charged battle over gender and anti-feminist backlash.
Michaela Coel praises ‘I May Destroy You’ intimacy director during BAFTA speech
CHRISTI CARRAS /
The Los Angeles Times
“I want to dedicate this award to the director of intimacy, Ita O’Brien,” Coel said. “Thank you for your existence in our industry, for making the space safe. For creating physical, emotional and professional boundaries, so that we can make work about exploitation, loss of respect, about abuse of power without being exploited or abused in the process.”
In their request for class-action status, the women suing Google said that the company paid female employees approximately $16,800 less per year than “the similarly-situated man,” citing an analysis by David Neumark, an economist at UC Irvine. “Google paid women less base salary, smaller bonuses, and less stock than men in the same job code and location,” they said.
Worried about the declining birthrate? How about giving mothers a break
Mary McNamara /
The Los Angeles Times
If everyone is really super-concerned about the drop in birthrates, why don’t we, as a nation, make having and raising children a little bit easier?
What should happen to racist, sexist and homophobic movies from an earlier era?
Nicholas Goldberg /
The Los Angeles Times
Rather than burying racist, sexist, homophobic or otherwise offensive films in some basement vault and pretending they never were made, maybe we can use them to reconsideration of the prejudices, stereotypes and bigotry that suffuse these films.
Black, female and high-profile, Kamala Harris is a top target in online fever swamps
Noah Bierman /
The Los Angeles Times
Research shows that Kamala Harris may be the most targeted American politician on the internet, one who checks every box for the haters of the fever swamps: She’s a woman, she’s a person of color and she holds power.
Pop critic Mikael Wood reflects, "Abuse, when it occurs, becomes inseparable from the art; indeed, the art serves to redeem the abuse, often even among the abused.