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Variety’s Power of Women Honorees Call for Change at New York Event: ‘We Need Every Person to Use Their Voice’


Mariska Hargitay, Amy Schumer, Anitta and Shonda Rhimes were honored at Variety's annual Power of Women New York.

The event, which took place at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, honored Shonda Rhimes, Anitta, Mariska Hargitay and Amy Schumer, and was hosted by comedian Amber Ruffin. So many rules on how to be a woman, how to behave, how to find the best husband, how to look good for the audience, to be the cute girl everybody wants to marry,” the singer, who was representing the charity CUFA (Central Única das Favelas), said. Patriarchal impunity is when a male-dominated system exempts perpetrators from punishment,” Hargitay said before talking about how Harvey Weinstein’s conviction was in essence overturned because “too many” women testified.

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