Women in India will finally get the chance to work as makeup artists in the film industry after sixty years of exclusion.
India is home to the world’s largest film industry, in terms of output, and in all this time, women have been unable to work as makeup artists on movie sets due to some bullshit archaic clause written in the guidelines of the union that represents makeup artists. NPR writes:
The country’s Supreme Court said Monday that it wouldn’t allow this “constitutionally impermissible discrimination” to go on.
The Indian Express newspaper reports that the country’s film industry only allows men to become makeup artists. Women are classified as hairdressers, the newspaper said. The Cine Costume Make-up Artists & Hair Dressers Associations, the union that represents makeup artists, says the rule exists to ensure men aren’t denied work.
I know what you’re thinking, and I also do not understand why women would have to be excluded in order to prevent men from being denied work. That’s probably because it doesn’t make any damn sense.
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