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While director Jane Campion, Sian Heder and Billie Eilish had big wins, women at the 94th Academy Awards won a total of 10 of the 43 individual Oscar statuettes handed out on Sunday night, the worst showing for female winners since the 2018 Academy Awards.
Since Halle Berry's historic win 20 years ago, no other Black women have been named best actress at the Oscars, and it took eight years after Berry’s win for another Black woman to even be nominated in the category.
‘Testosterone-Fueled Bear Pit’ Discourages Women From Economics
Lizzy Burden and Philip Aldrick /
Bloomberg
In a 2020 survey conducted by the Royal Economic Society, more than 50% of respondents said they found the climate in economics aggressive. Less than half found it respectful, and a third of women said they had been subjected to inappropriate sexually-related behavior, according to the survey of 181 academic economists.
More women are becoming storm chasers, defying convention and breaking barriers
Ian Livingston /
The Washington Post
Like many extreme endeavors, storm chasing has a heavy gender imbalance. There are signs that this is shifting.