Every year Cannes Film Festival awards a director with the Palme d’Or, which is its most prestigious film award.
Women directors are barely in the running. Out of the 20 films eligible for the Palme d’Or in 2016, only three are directed by women.
Read MoreWelcome to the Super Hall of Fame, TIME Magazine!
Last week, TIME published its “100 Most Influential People for 2016” list. For the second year in a row, the list has featured a Hall of Fame gender ratio of 40% women.
Read MoreSALT 2016 promotes itself as a conference where “industry heavyweights inspire, connect, and unite.” Despite an array of speakers from several industries, SALT’s speaker list only includes 11 women.
Read MoreCreative Tech Week is “creating the premier nexus for creativity and technology worldwide” at its week-long conference, which kicks off on April 29th. We’re happy to see that the event includes 50% women experts and 43% women featured experts!
Read MoreElevate Summit starts this Saturday, April 16th, and we want to give them some Hall of Fame kudos to kick off their event!
Read MoreAndreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm, is hosting an event on April 20th called "For the People" that invites attendees to "visit the future."
Does this look like the future? Or even remotely representative of “the people”?
Read MoreFox & Friends averaged 16% women analysts during its discussions of presidential politics during the first four weeks of Who Talks?. Only 25 women appeared in presidential politics segments between February 29th and March 25th, compared to 134 men.
Read MoreAnderson Cooper 360 consistently featured a gender-balanced array of experts during its recent discussions of presidential politics. The show included more than 40% women analysts every single week between February 29th and March 25th. It averaged 48% women analysts for these first four weeks of Who Talks?.
Read MoreCan you stay ahead of the curve when you barely include women experts? Out of 25 marketing influencers, only four are women.
Read MoreThe Design & Content conference describes their speakers as “some of the industry’s best” and “the people who inspire and challenge us to create a better web.”
We’re happy to see that this conference features 53% women speakers!
Read MoreLet’s give thanks to our wonderful Who Talks? partners, the Rutgers University Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) and the Women’s Media Center!
Read MoreThe number of women analysts on The Kelly File has dropped every week for the past three weeks. Last week, the show featured only 5% women analysts in discussions of the 2016 election. Out of 38 analysts, two were women.
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