Women and Gender Bias in Post-#MeToo Hollywood
Women and Gender Bias in Post-#MeToo Hollywood
BU women alums in Hollywood’s entertainment industry kicked off the October 27 event BU Envisions the Future: The Ideas, People, and Media That Are Changing the World. Photo by Brian Kramer
Women and Gender Bias in Post-#MeToo Hollywood
This movement is about finding the mentors and the inspirers. There are opportunities – take them.”
Actress and executive producer Kim Raver (’91) addressed Hollywood’s reckoning in the rise of the #MeToo movement at BU Envisions the Future at Paramount Studios on October 27, 2018. At the event, which also tackled women’s underrepresentation in film, Michaela Watkins (’94) and Nina Tassler (’79, Hon.’16) advocated for gender parity in the entertainment industry.
The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, chaired by Academy Award-winning actor Geena Davis (’79, Hon.’99), has found that women-driven films are on the rise – but still underrepresented – peaking at 27 percent in 2018.
Read more about BU Envisions the Future in BU Today.
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