Carey Goldberg (NYT) GENDER BREAKTHROUGH -- North Carolina, which has never elected a woman to any statewide office higher than secretary of state, is poised for something like a breakthrough this year.
So it comes as a surprise that her latest gig, as president of the Cannes film festival jury, isn't another act of pioneering gender breakthrough.
Hillary Clinton may achieve the same sort of breakthrough moment on gender, as the first woman in the Oval Office.
This was not only a novelty for Muazam, but also a gender breakthrough for the whole community.
Sport suffers from the greatest gender bias, despite the breakthrough of female presenters including Clare Balding and Gabby Logan.
The anti-apartheid movement brought about the downfall of the racist apartheid regime in South Africa in the 1990s, while the women's movement in different historical periods and contexts achieved landmark breakthroughs in law to push for gender equality.
My home university made history this year by students electing a transgender Homecoming Queen, and given our Midwestern cornfield location I think this breakthrough signals the opening up of the gender continuum across the United States.
The Gotham Independent Film Awards take a more progressive stance, refusing to categorize actors according to gender and instead bestowing awards for best breakthrough actor and best ensemble cast.
But there's a new glimmer of hope thanks to a little-known but breakthrough Massachusetts law that attacks a major factor in gender pay inequity: The use of salary history as a basis for salary future.
