In Hollywood, though, coming from a background of financial privilege and "industry connections" will almost certainly guarantee being able to "break in" to an industry that keeps out hundreds of talented individuals across the globe. Nepotism fuels Hollywood more so than any other artistic medium. Yes, everything is…

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The proposed bill in Congress is actually being called a Paid Family Leave Act specifically because they do not want to kill the bill on impact by restricting the benefit to mothers. It will be a law that provides both men AND women the option to take paid time off work to care for a new child, a sick family member or…

I also always thought Swaziland and Lesotho were included — at least they were in 2013 when I was talking to people about this a lot.

Almost all of the countries with "maternity leave" plans either treat it in a gender-neutral manner (ie: "paid parental leave") or also offer paternity leave for male employees. How is that not an equal opportunity for both mothers and fathers?

See, I'm a little different in that, despite finding out Hollywood and I weren't going to work out, I love Los Angeles. I'm still here after 8 years, and I plan to be here as long as I can.

Haha! That's what the "Career Center" told me, too! They also chastised me for minoring in Music Industry (which gave me better internships, jobs and interviews than SCA ever did) because it showed I "wasn't dedicated to one media." Now, all SCA preaches is interdisciplinary work and cross-collaboration between the…

It's depressing, and somewhat relieving at the same time, to know the experiences of my immediate friend group and myself post-SCA don't exist in a vaccum. I guess the question here would be, "What can we do about it?" but I'm so disenchanted by everything — my experiences in film school, interning, trying to find a…

I should just have a stock comment ready to go whenever this issue is written about. Except I don't, so here's a different iteration of my experiences with Hollywood and women.

In college, I drove for our school's free student taxi service — basically a student can call us between 5pm and 3am and receive a ride from (mostly) anywhere on campus to (most) off-campus housing locations within a mile radius of the school. (I say most because many dorms are serviced by our 24/hr tram system; the…

What in the actual fuck?! I understand people have a lot of uncomfortable feelings surrounding trans-racial adoptions — but why can't everyone agree that a stable, loving home with a stable, loving parenting situation is infinitely better than the life circumstances that child would have been through had he or she…

Seriously. I went to a school with a popular Greek scene, but that scene was restricted to Pretty Blonde Girls With Money. I had several friends actively try to recruit me into their houses my sophomore year, but those girls were the exception to the rules at my college. As a Hispanic financial aid/scholarship…

As an ex-Catholic, any pro-Pope post on Gawker sites would send my blood a boiling.

I think it's fair to criticize and call out religious leaders, organizations and believers when they're lobbying for laws and regulations based in their beliefs to be utilized "in the real world."

That same document also had a nice little paragraph about how the Church "hears" female Catholics' "call" for equality within the Church's hierarchy, but ultimately considers gender equality a "modern demand" that the Church will not "bend" to.

The first and last time I tried to engage in a feminist discussion on Tumblr, I was told my opinions and thoughts on feminism were "useless" and "should be ignored" because I have a white mother and therefore am "privileged." For real. Apparently, since I was unable to choose my ethnicity at birth/prevent my dad from…

Still, it's partial pay. And that's craptastic.

Assuming no national mandatory paid parental leave law is passed in the next 5-10 years, California's crappy-but-stil-there paid leave law is enough for me to stick around and have my kids here.

A good push-up bra would have solved the cup issues this dress was giving her. She's also not entirely boxy — so I think opting for a little padding up top (and not hunching over!) would have made her look OK in this dress. It's very ill-fitting on top otherwise.

As someone working in a creative field with mostly friends who work in the creative field AND a boyfriend who is a straight-up "artist," I find your comment pretty dismissive of how hard it actually is to make a living through a creative endeavor. Creative types are amongst the hardest working people I know, because…