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A First Look at How Actors Equity Will Start to #ChangetheStage.
Nicole S. Smart
- Director of Diversity, Actor's Equity Assoication
Actors’ Equity has a long history of promoting diversity and fostering inclusion within our community, and for decades we have been negotiating equal opportunity language into our contracts. Our recent, groundbreaking empirical study on hiring biases in the industry confirmed what many of us had long suspected: women and people of color are working less, and when they do work, they are making less money than Caucasian men. This data demands action, and as a result, we have made building a more inclusive workforce one of the three pillars of our Equity 2020 plan to create a more aggressive, inclusive and responsive union. The creation of my position as Director of Diversity is the first step in following through on this commitment for change in the industry.
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