It’s impossible not to notice that a global women’s equality movement has been rapidly gathering pace across Film, TV, politics and the advertising industry in the past year. Starting with grass roots movements such as the Women’s March on Washington in 2016 which sparked similar protests around the world including last weekend’s global Women’s March, and exacerbated by the 2017 Harvey Weinstein scandal which led to Social media campaigns #MeToo and more recently the #TimesUp movement given a platform at the Golden Globe awards. There is no denying that issues…
Read MoreDay: 11 February 2018
Budweiser Celebrates Employees with New Super Bowl Commercial
Budweiser has recently released its Super Bowl LII commercial showcasing Anheuser-Busch employees, who together over the past 30 years have helped provide over 79 million cans of clean drinking water in response to natural disasters. The commercial will be timed with a new company commitment to add a second brewery to its emergency water program to increase its disaster relief efforts by the end of the year. Employees are the driving force behind the Anheuser-Busch emergency water program, which is centralized in its Cartersville, GA brewery. Together with the help…
Read MoreBank of America Is 2nd Top U.S. Bank to Act on Shareholder Pressure to Close Gender Pay Gap
Six U.S. banks and financial institutions were first targeted for gender pay gap action in 2017. This week, Bank of America (BofA) became the second of the banks to agree to report on and work to close the gender pay gap. In response to BofA’s steps, Arjuna Capital withdrew its gender pay shareholder proposal today, along with co-filer Baldwin Brothers Inc. (1) On January 15th, Citigroup was the first of the six top financial institutions to take such action. Repeating the sector-specific gender pay equity campaign that led earlier to…
Read Moretruth® Teams Up with Imagine Dragons Lead Vocalist Dan Reynolds and Country Star Jon Pardi on New Campaign
Nearly 38 million Americans still smoke tobacco, and as inequality in America continues to expand by many measures, the smoking epidemic is a growing aspect of that divide. 72 percent of remaining smokers are from lower-income communities and this is no accident. Big Tobacco not only targets these communities to start smoking, but makes it harder for them to stop with products designed to be more addictive. The exploitative practices of the tobacco industry are the reason why smoking rates are nearly twice as high among people living below the…
Read MoreMy Favourite Posts of the last year
As we approach our first anniversary and because I love me a list I am doing a list of some of my favourite articles/interviews/pieces of last year, these may not always have been the most popular but they are the ones which resonated with me and I think are always worth highlighting again 🙂 These are in no particular order. Sian is the founder and runner of Ethical Hour which has been growing a lot over the last year and her embrace of the Ethical Community and her ability to…
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