How Halle Berry Is Teaching Her 7-Year-Old Son to Rethink Gender Stereotypes 689 Shares
Halle Berry has smashed box office records, she s smashed workouts, and her latest task is teaching her son to smash gender stereotypes. The actress recently sat down for a panel titled Women Breaking Barriers: An Industry Shift as part of Sundance Film Festival alongside Zendaya, Sia, Robin Wright, Andra Day, Elisabeth Sereda, and Silvia Bizio, in which she opened up about her upcoming film
Bruised. The film, which Halle directed and stars in, is about a retired MMA fighter looking for redemption both in the ring and as a mother after her estranged son comes back into her life.
Halle Berry teaches 7-year-old son to rethink gender stereotypes ANI | Updated: Jan 31, 2021 20:52 IST
Washington [US], January 31 (ANI): Hollywood star Halle Berry, in a virtual event, spoke about how she s teaching her son with ex-husband actor Oliver Martinez to respect the power of women.
According to E!News, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association on Saturday (local time) hosted a panel titled Women Breaking Barriers: An Industry Shift as part of the Sundance Film Festival, which, due to the coronavirus pandemic, is taking place virtually this year.
The event, which was hosted by HFPA members Elisabeth Sereda and Silvia Bizio, featured Berry as well as Andra Day, Robin Wright, Sia and Zendaya in a conversation about how women, and in particular women of colour, are fighting for equality in Hollywood in the wake of major social movements like #MeToo and Black Lives Matter.
Halle Berry touches on the effects of harmful gender stereotyping
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Halle Berry spills the beans behind her techniques to eradicating gender stereotypes.
The conversation around breaking gender-based stereotypes began after Berry, Andra Day, Robin Wright, Sia and Zendaya sat down with HFPA members Elisabeth Sereda and Silvia Bizio for
Women Breaking Barriers: An Industry Shift summit.
During that conversation Berry weighed in as a mother and explained how she plans to eradicate gender stereotypes in her home.
Accordiing to
E News she claimed, I have a 7-year-old son, and I have realized what my job is in raising him. If we want to have a future that s different, that is where it starts. You made me think of how many conversations I ve had with him, say, since he s turned 5 years old, about the differences in boys and girls, and I see how he s taught to feel like he s superior, at 5, than girls are.