Kristen Bell Mocks Gender Pay Gap and More: Gender News Weekly

amp160Kristen Bellamp8217s amp8220Pinksourcingamp8221 Video Mocks Gender Pay Gapamp8220Why outsource all your production to faraway countries like India China and Narnia when we have the cheapest and best workforce right here in the good ol39amp160US of A Womenamp8221 Kristen Bell of NBC39s new sitcom The Good Placeamp160asks in a hilarious corporate video spoof which mocks the gender pay gap As she walks through the amp8220Pinksourcingamp8221 office she passes by women noting that they are the best solution to cutting business costs as you only have to pay them 77 cents on the dollar amp8220Best of all you can promote literally anyone else besides them especially if they are less qualifiedquot she quips quotAfter all women really donamp8217t want to be working anyway Theyamp8217d rather be home taking care of the familyamp8221amp160 The video also addresses the pronounced difference in the wage gap for women of color Watch it aboveamp160The Evolution of Sitcom MenAre sitcom narratives evolving as gender roles shift This week The New York Times took a look at the roles of men in fallamp8217s lineup of new sitcoms amp8220This fall broadcast television will turn its attention to the battle of the straight white man to assert his masculinity in an increasingly alien worldamp8221 columnist James Poniewozik writesamp160 Three new shows amp8211 CBS39amp160Man With a Planamp160The Great Indoorsamp160and Kevin Can Waitamp160amp8211 all depict men struggling to adapt to reduced roles or new circumstancesamp160amp160In Man With a Planamp160for example Adam played by Matt LeBlanc suddenly becomes a stayathome dad as his wife becomes the primary wageearner In The Great Indoorsamp160a popular outdoors journalist returns to the office and is baffled by his amp8220softeramp8221 male Millennial coworkers As men grapple with new realities and anxieties amp8220At leastamp160these sitcoms suggest a more upbeat response to this type of anxiety a reassurance that these characters and their equivalents in the audience still have a place in the worldamp8221 Poniewozik saysamp160FreeTheBid Initiative Tackles Diversity at Ad AgenciesLess than 10 of female commercial directors at major ad agencies are women and those firms are now taking major steps to improve the ratio announcing their commitment to a FreeTheBid diversity initiative Mashable reports Itamp8217s typical that at the bidding stage of an account agencies present three directors to the client to showcase their talent In an effort to combat gender bias FreeTheBid will require that at least one of those three be a woman quotIt seems like a nobraineramp8221 director Spike Jonze said of the initiative amp8220Of course we should be getting more women filmmakers to bid on jobs As with all great ideas it39s such a simple one and the end result is going to be getting more diverse voices into the conversation and therefore more diverse voices into the work which makes the work betterquot Mother FCB Global and 180LA are three of the agencies taking the pledgeamp160Tim Gunn Asks Fashion Industry to Wake Up When It Comes to WomenquotProject Runwayquot cohost Tim Gunn has some pretty strong words for fashion industry Stop ignoring the average American woman dummies In an oped published in The Washington Post he outlines why ignoring the average size of women in America today which by the way is a size 16 not a size 6 is not only demeaning to women but bad for business amp8220I love the American fashion industry but it has a lot of problems and one of them is the baffling way it has turned its back on plussize womenamp8221 he writes amp8220Itamp8217s a puzzling conundrumamp8221 amp160While there are over 100 million plus size women in the US a 204 billion market that continues to grow year over year amp8220many designers dripping with disdain lacking imagination or simply too cowardly to take a risk still refuse to make clothes for themamp8221 Gunn laments Most clothing companies max out at size 12 he notes and there is a substantial lack of stylish plussize brands amp8220I profoundly believe that women of every size can look goodamp8221 he writes ending with his famous calltoaction amp8220Thereamp8217s an art to doing this Designers make it workamp8221amp160A MustReadKevin Roberts The Personification of Our Grave Disservice to Womenamp160More Recent HeadlinesHow Unconscious Bias Is Affecting Our Ability to ListenFemale Fashion Designers are Still in the MinorityAP Exclusive Study Finds Inequality Unchanged in HollywoodMansplaining How Not to Talk to Female NASA AstronautsMy Teen Boys are Blind to Rape Cultureamp160The opinions and points of view expressed in this commentary are exclusively the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillagecomMyersBizNet management or associated bloggersamp160

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