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Despite the frequent interchangeability of phrases like “women-owned” and “female-founded,” the two terms aren’t always related a female-founded brand might not be owned by a woman anymore and a presently-women-owned business might not have been founded by a woman. During social-minded instances like International Women’s Day, understanding what each label denotes could mean the difference between supporting a brand that’s actually run by women, or one that happens to have women
Fashion Designers, Beauty Community Speak Out as Industry Stays Mum on Anti-Asian Violence
Women s Wear Daily (WWD) 2/24/2021 Alexa Tietjen
Updated: March 17
On March 16, shootings at three spas in the Atlanta, Ga. area left eight people six of whom were of Asian descent and seven of whom were women dead. The gunman, Robert Aaron Long, who is white, was captured on March 17.
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Long told police he had previously frequented massage parlors and that he performed the shootings to eliminate his “temptation” due to a “sexual addiction,” according to The New York Times.
The hate crime comes just days after Stop AAPI Hate reported that it had been notified of 3,795 hate incidents from its inception to Feb. 28 this year. Verbal harassment and shunning account for the majority of reported incidents, followed by physical assault. Women report hate incidents 2.3 times more than men, according to the report.