Maxine Williams, Chief Global Diversity Officer at Facebook, discusses what the social network is doing to celebrate International Women's Day in 2018. Last year, International Women's Day was the number one most discussed event on Facebook.
This year, Williams says Facebook is launching the "Credit Her" campaign, shining a light on women of the past and present, and their accomplishments. Facebook is also holding open door events at their offices all over the world.
It's undeniable that Mother's Day brings florists a lot of business. But 1-800-Flowers is going beyond just fresh flowers to stay ahead of the game.
Female stories "have to be told by women, otherwise there's going to be a disconnect," says actress Meghan Rienks. The movie, which follows a group of high school girls who reunite to complete a bucket list, was created by women.
The former Fox News reporter Lauren Sivan says she was able to speak out against the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein because she didn't rely on him for a job. But it was harder when it came to speaking out about her former boss Roger Ailes. "It was a lose-lose for any woman who wanted to come forward," she says.
The Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski threatened to sue the Academy after it voted to expel him from its ranks, calling the #MeToo movement "total hypocrisy." Jennifer Cunningham, a senior editor at the entertainment news site Bossip, said changes to the Academy membership rules don't help Polanski.
The entertainment company was trading down Wednesday morning, despite posting better-than-expected earnings on Tuesday. The biggest drag could be coming from "concern around ESPN and the decline in subscribers there," says Jason Ware, chief investment officer and chief economist at Albion Financial Group.
The actress says the greatest thing about playing the iconic Wizard of Oz character is her "transformation" through the show, which "challenges me as an actor." Cooper made her Broadway debut in the long-running hit musical last year.
Once people get over the name, they find that the show is actually "sexy, funny, and conversational," says the actor DeRon Horton, who plays Lionel Higgins on the Netflix series about race on campus at a fictional Ivy League university.
The Chrisley clan explains when to use phrases like "bless your heart" and "yonder." Season six of the USA Network show launched on Tuesday.
This year's theme was "Heavenly Bodies," inspired by the Catholic Church, giving celebrities plenty of room for fun interpretations.
The blockbuster hit from Marvel added hundreds of millions of dollars to Disney's bottom line in the second quarter, giving the company's movie studio business a 21 percent quarterly increase. The new "Avengers" movie and soon-to-be released "Star Wars" films will continue to help the media company's revenues, says Jack Kramer, co-founder and co-CEO of MarketSnacks.
