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Five Nordic film festivals have joined forces to sign the 50/50 by 2020 gender equality pledge
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- Title
- Gender Equality Pledge Signed by Five Nordic Festivals
- Authors
- Elsa Keslassy
- Published
- Aug 26 2019
- Word count
- 321 words
Why would you sign a pledge to commit to a 50/50 gender representation when you're already there? Do the 5% of the directors matter that much when 52% were lead my women and the board is at 60%? If that pledge is so strict, is the board going to get replaced for a true 50/50 cut? Are the 2% of the projects going to get thrown out and be replaced by male-lead ones?
It really just sounds like cashing in on good publicity even though you're not really going to change anything.
Well, it has caused some festivals here in Turkey to commit to the same pledge, which might be reckoned a positive effect depending on your standpoint. Personally, I find this sort of 50/50 stuff rather futile and cringy b/c it does nothing about the actual problems but aims at symptoms and even obscures the actual problems.