The Brett Kavanaugh hearings hung like a dark cloud over Hollywood’s first ever Pay Equity Summit, held today in Burbank. More than 300 attended.
“The hearings were exhausting, emotional and sometimes I was so angry I wanted to throw things at the television,” said summit moderator Tema Staig, executive director of Women in Media. Even so, she said, “It was a week that saw that those who attempt to diminish women are dinosaurs, and we all know what happened to dinosaurs.”
“People need to step up and be heroes,” she continued in her opening remarks, praising the two women who confronted Sen. Jeff Flake in the elevator shortly before he called for an FBI investigation into allegations hanging over Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation.
“We made some small steps in the delay of an accused molester to a really high job,” she said.
Turning to the issue of underpaid women in Hollywood,...
“The hearings were exhausting, emotional and sometimes I was so angry I wanted to throw things at the television,” said summit moderator Tema Staig, executive director of Women in Media. Even so, she said, “It was a week that saw that those who attempt to diminish women are dinosaurs, and we all know what happened to dinosaurs.”
“People need to step up and be heroes,” she continued in her opening remarks, praising the two women who confronted Sen. Jeff Flake in the elevator shortly before he called for an FBI investigation into allegations hanging over Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation.
“We made some small steps in the delay of an accused molester to a really high job,” she said.
Turning to the issue of underpaid women in Hollywood,...
- 9/29/2018
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
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