sexism
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Ad Regulator Rules That Match.com’s ‘I’m a Keeper’ TikTok Was Sexist
In June, Match.com posted a TikTok to its UK account featuring a woman’s voice saying, “Things that make him realise I’m a keeper.” The video showed a woman giving a man a protein shake while he sat on the couch and arranging fresh towels and socks for him. A viewer reported the post to the…
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Study Confirms That, Yes, Women Face Sexism In Motorsport
For those of us massive nerds out there, it’s an exciting day when a motorsport article is published in a scholarly journal — and it’s an even rarer day when that motorsport article focuses specifically on women. And that’s exactly what happened earlier this year in a study that confirms that female drivers not only…
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Gina Prince-Bythewood Says Her Work on Silver & Black Helped Her Ace The Old Guard
Sony may have passed on Silver & Black, one of several planned Spider-Man spinoffs, but director and co-writer Gina Prince-Bythewood said the information she got from working on that since-cancelled project was invaluable. It helped her land Netflix’s The Old Guard, which has catapulted her career and possibly launched a new comic book movie franchise.
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WeWork, Former CEO Adam Neumann Accused Of Rampant Pregnancy And Gender Discrimination
WeWork and its chief investor, SoftBank, recently paid out WeWork co-founder and self-declared candidate for “President of the World” Adam Neumann to the tune of $US1.7 ($2) billion just to get his arse out the door amid the company’s disastrous collapse. And he’s left quite a mess behind, with a proposed class-action complaint brought by…