Good morning! Trump is adding more women to his Cabinet, Kamala Harris is planning her next steps, and a new documentary aims to put Afghan women’s rights at the top of the global agenda.
– Still fighting. The new documentary Bread and roseswhich premiered on Apple TV on Friday, has a powerful production team behind it: activist Malala Yousafzai, actress Jennifer Lawrence, and director Sara Manney.
The film follows women in Afghanistan after the Taliban seize power in 2021. The women fight for their freedom, and their efforts are captured in guerrilla-style footage, often filmed on phone cameras. “This documentary is a form of solidarity with Afghan women and girls, and it is also a form of resistance against the Taliban, who are trying to make Afghan women invisible and erase them,” Yousafzai told me in a Zoom interview.
Since Mani began producing the film in 2021, the situation of Afghan women has not improved. In fact, it has gotten worse. “If I wanted to make this film at this moment, it wouldn’t be possible,” Mani says. At the beginning of this stretch of Taliban rule, women could not work or go to school; Now they are I can’t leave the house Manny says: Without an escort.
For Yousafzai, the moment that stands out in the film is when dentist Zahra Mohammadi transforms her office into a space for organizing women. “All she wanted to do was become a dentist, but she couldn’t do it anymore,” says Yousafzai, who became a public figure after she was shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating for girls’ education when she was 15. “It’s a moment I can personally relate to.”
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Lawrence remembers the moment Bread and roses When Sharifa Movahedzadeh, who finds it oppressive to go from a career as a government employee to life as a housewife, escapes to the rooftop to listen to a song she loves, “just to find some peace.”
The actor came on board as a producer for the film, adding to a growing body of work in support of women’s rights. Lawrence also worked as a producer on Zurawski v. Texasthe documentary about the Texas abortion ban and the women who fought it in a landmark lawsuit. She says her passion for both projects came from being American Zurawski against Texasand “human” for Bread and roses.
Yousafzai hopes the film will bring Afghan women’s rights back to the top of the global agenda, as part of the conversation about women’s rights around the world. It urges nations Not to normalize relations With the Taliban, which says it legalizes apartheid between the sexes. “We need more unity and brotherhood to protect women’s rights in Afghanistan, but also at the global level,” she says. “It’s about protecting women everywhere.”
Emma Hinchliffe
emma.hinchliffe@fortune.com
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Also in the headlines
– Cabinet choices. Donald Trump has made several Cabinet picks, including doctor. Janet Neshewat to the general surgeon, Rep. Lori Chavez DeRemer (R-OR) to the Secretary of Labor, W Brooke Rollins To the Minister of Agriculture. And also his assistant Natalie is on the run He is expected to follow Trump into office, serving as his information source and “human printer.”
– Abortion ban in Texas. A third woman died under Texas’ abortion ban. The death of 35-year-old Porsha Ngomezi was avoidable, according to dozens of doctors. She is the fifth woman to die after not receiving the necessary dilation and curettage. ProPublica
-What next? According to Vice President Kamala Harris’ inner circle, Harris is “staying in the fight” and keeping options open for her next political office; Possible next steps could include running for president in 2028 or running for governor of California. Now she is working with her team to decide how she will speak out against Donald Trump. POLITICO
– The collapse of the billionaire. New data indicates that 13% of the world’s 3,323 billionaires are women. Three-quarters of these 431 women inherited part of their wealth, while the remaining billionaires created their own. In comparison, 5% of male billionaires inherited their wealth and 66% are self-made. CNBC
Movers and shakers
Communify is named Fincentric, a market and customer data unification company Jenny Wang Chief Customer Solutions Officer. Most recently, she served as Chief Experience Officer at InvestCloud.
Named after Inspira Health, a non-profit healthcare organization Julie Ellis Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, successfully Anneliese McMenamin. Ellis previously served as vice president of human resources at the company.
Kroger, a grocery store chain, its name Mary Ellen Adcock Chief Commercial and Marketing Officer. Most recently, she served as the company’s Senior Vice President of Operations.
Next to Ain Home Services Company Stacy Lynn Bourgeois As Marketing Director. She most recently served as Global Head of Product, Quality and Operations for Replenishment at Amazon.
Nasdaq Private Market, a secondary liquidity solutions provider, has been appointed Dobby’s hair As Managing Director and Head of the Private Client Group. She was previously General Manager of the Capital Markets Department.
Fanatics, a sports equipment company and digital sports platform, His name Jeremy Gorman Senior advisor. Previously, she was head of global advertising at Netflix.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation, the parent advisory company of Booz Allen Hamilton, has been appointed Debra Dial To its board of directors. She was previously Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting and Controller at AT&T.
On my radar
How Michelle Kang became one of the biggest investors in women’s football New York Times
A former Goldman Sachs banker turned lithium CEO vows to weather the downturn Bloomberg
Molly Paz is doing motherhood her way deer
Parting words
“By embracing grit, gumption, grace, and gratitude, we not only accelerate our careers, we help lift up those around us.“
— Leanne Caret, former CEO of Boeing Defense, Space and Security Success as a woman in business
