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Lena Dunham (Of Course)
American writer, director and actress Lena
Dunham’s hit television series Girls, now in its
second season, continues to be celebrated for its
‘realness’ and open discussion of career ambition,
body image and sex in non-glamourised ways.
Sandberg, Slaughter & Meyer
Almost all the panels relating to women at March
2013’s South by Southwest Interactive technology,
film and music festival in Austin, Texas referenced
three key influencers (along with Dunham):
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US-based Facebook chief executive Sheryl
Sandberg for her controversial book, Lean In:
Women, Work and the Will to Lead.
•
American political academic Anne-Marie
Slaughter, specifically for her 2012 article
Women Can’t Have It All.
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US-based Yahoo! chief executive Marissa
Meyer, for her approach to maternity leave
(in a nutshell: work through it, ban employees
from working from home, and build an in-
office nursery).
Anita Sarkeesian – “It’s Not Okay”
In June 2012, 29-year-old Californian blogger Anita
Sarkeesian submitted a project on crowdfunding
site Kickstarter to fund a web series about
“Tropes Vs Women in Video Games”, exploring
stereotypes like damsels in distress etc. The online
backlash she subsequently faced was described as
“terrorism”, and included threats of violence, death
and rape. Her response was to archive all examples
of abuse and carry on regardless – ending her
comment on the abuse with the simple phrase:
“It’s not okay.” Despite the reaction, Sarkeesian’s
project received $158,922 (she had requested a
mere $6,000).
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