Hollywood Women Make History at First Power Women Summit: Takeaways and Next Moves

The response tells me that this gathering answered a crying need, a year after the explosion of #MeToo

Women's Summit WaxWord lead shot Anita Hill, Katie Hill, HAIM, Sharon Waxman, Parkland

Hollywood women made history Thursday and Friday.

With 1,500 women from all across the media and entertainment industry, the Power Women Summit was the largest gathering ever of women in Hollywood aimed at moving forward on the goal of achieving gender equity in entertainment and media.

Let’s take a moment and grasp what that means. Women in Hollywood are not like any other group that may be gathering across the country for a purpose. The critical mass of women at this event were the nation’s storytellers. The creators of our popular culture. The shapers of “what’s cool” for our children.

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