Hollywood Working Moms and the Brutal Conflict Between Family and Career
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WHERE: Qatar Academy Msheireb Additional services include dance WHEN: Ongoing education, choreograph music videos and TIME: 3:15pm – 4:15pm dance cover albums, choreograph dance The olympic sport using horizontal bar, musical projects, corporate workshops and rings and fl oor exercises on mats for the events, choreograph events for schools, children from age 4 till 16. colleges, alumni meets and corporate and choreography events. For details, call 33897609. Arabic Calligraphy Workshop WHEN: Saturday – Wednesday TIME: 6pm Arabic Calligraphy workshop is back. Career Guidance Come and learn the artistic practice of Arabic WHERE: Right Track Consultants, Al handwriting and calligraphy at Music and Sadd Arts Atelier. WHEN: Sunday – Thursday The lessons will take place every Saturday, EVENTS the resort. Only for QR280 per person. TIME: 6pm – 8pm Monday and Wednesday at 6pm. 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The children will continue learning community, trade, arts, food and incense, the age-appropriate concepts, work on social exhibition takes one on a journey to explore skills, life skills training, arts and crafts, the rich and diverse Indian cultures, the long music, and fun activities such as water play. historic links between Qatar and India, and cultural similarities between Qatar and India. PLEASE UNDERSTAND ME! : A Parent-Child Workshop Ballet Lessons WHERE: Inspire Training Academy, WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier C-Ring Road WHEN: Ongoing WHEN: May 18 WHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf Times TIME: 4pm – 8pm TIME: 3:30pm – 7pm Building For more info e-mail at registration@ Right Track presents ‘PLEASE WHEN: Wednesday – Monday atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. 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E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Monday, May 13, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY ‘Motherhood penalty’ Time’s Up and #MeToo have provoked long overdue conversations about inequality, but less attention has been paid to how a lack of support for families in a competitive, male-dominated industry may be holding women back, writes Meredith Blake MAKING A STATEMENT: Aline Brosh McKenna, showrunner of the recently concluded CW musical dramedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend at her off ice in Los Angeles. early every mother in job off er fell through for It is especially hard on mothers, Hollywood has a horror Oscar-nominated Mudbound who are more likely to rearrange This is an industry story. cinematographer Rachel Morrison their work schedules to take care that does not There was the time because producers panicked that of their families and, according screenwriter and she’d be going back to work a to research, are often hit by a protect the interest Nshowrunner Aline Brosh McKenna few weeks after giving birth — “motherhood penalty” — losing was 8½ months pregnant and a something she was willing to do out on raises and job opportunities of parents studio executive joked, “I guess to help realise one of the most because they are perceived as less today would be a bad day to punch exciting scripts she had ever read. professionally committed than you in the stomach.” The experience, she says, “made me their child-free peers (and men — Aline Brosh There was the time Nisha acutely aware of the prejudices in with children). Numbers can vary, Ganatra, director of the upcoming this industry, specifi cally in my line but a groundbreaking 2001 study McKenna, co-creator Mindy Kaling fi lm Late Night, went of work.” by sociologists Michelle Budig and on a scouting trip to India when she Being a working parent in the Paula England found a wage penalty and showrunner of was a new mom and found herself United States, the only developed of 5 percent to 7 percent (depending driving around the country in a van nation in the world without a on experience) for each child a Crazy Ex-Girlfriend “with 15 dudes,” pumping breast federal paid parental leave policy woman has.