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"It's very frustrating, because you know that it has nothing to do with your skills." This research quote stood up to me because most women know how to do the jobs but men focus on looks and what you look like to be the jobs. Examples if a women dressed a certain way or has a good a style to men than they would be get better opportunities in work and out of what.

This is something i will put it in my documentary such as asking people if finding jobs can be hard for them as a women of color who wants a high paying job.

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In a Sydney pub with her colleagues, Cathy Ngo thought it would be a normal Friday night out for after-work drinks.

Instead, to her shock, she was approached by a male colleague at the company, who picked her up and swung her over his shoulder.

Ms Ngo said her now former co-worker shouted to the pub, "I love Asian women!"

He later told Ms Ngo that his words were "just a compliment", but Ms Ngo was rattled.

"He was a very tall, six-foot white guy. And I was 22 years old. I'm quite petite as well, [only] five-foot tall," she said.

"I was treated like a child or something like that."

Now the CEO of a public speaking agency, Ms Ngo said this was just one work-related incident where she was discriminated against or harassed because of her identity as an Asian woman.

She's now calling for workplaces to be more safe and respectful for women of colour, and she's not alone.

Discrimination at work

A national survey about the experiences of Australian women of colour in workplaces shows the majority don't feel safe at work.

The report, conducted by advocacy group Women of Colour Australia in partnership with Murdoch University, surveyed 543 women of colour, with 7 per cent of them identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.

It found that almost 60 per cent of respondents experienced discrimination relating to their identity, such as their sex, ethnicity, age or religion.

Brenda Gaddi, founder and managing director of Women of Colour Australia, said the findings were unsurprising, and incidents often go underreported.

"Even if we're saying 60 per cent, it might be like 70 per cent or 80 per cent in reality," Ms Gaddi said.

Only one-third of respondents felt their identity as a woman of colour was recognised and valued at work.

The report echoes findings from the Australia Talks National Survey 2021, which found that almost half of respondents (49 per cent) experienced minor slights or subtle forms of discrimination, while 35 per cent said they were unfairly treated in the workplace.

The Australia Talks survey also revealed that 51 per cent of women experienced discrimination based on their sex, compared to 19 per cent of men.

'Constantly having to prove yourself to others'

According to the Women of Colour Australia report, almost 70 per cent of respondents said there were no people with diverse backgroundsholding senior positions at their organisations.

Some respondents also noted they had to prove that they fit into the team "again and again" - an experience Dr Yumiko Kadota knows all too well.

Dr Kadota, a surgeon and the author of Emotional Female, recalled once meeting a patient who asked for a Caucasian doctor to treat them instead.

"When she saw me, she said, 'Oh, I'll have an Aussie, thanks'," Dr Kadota said.

"It's very frustrating, because you know that it has nothing to do with your skills.

"So you're always constantly having to prove yourself to others, and that gets tiring."

But some women feel they aren't even getting the opportunity to prove their worth.

Caroline*, a Chinese-Australian woman, works in construction, an industry dominated by men.

She wished to remain anonymous as she feared speaking publicly would impact her future job prospects.

Caroline said she was the only woman in her team of 10 people, and that she was the only one who was not allowed to access the company car to drive out to construction sites.

She said her senior colleague also refused to print business cards for her and another Asian colleague, and told her: "You stay in the office all the time anyway."

"Unlike discrimination that happened on the streets, these discriminations at the office were usually subtle," Caroline said.

"And that's the scariest part of it."

Why it's difficult to speak up

Ms Gaddi said according to the report, many felt like they couldn't make a complaint about discrimination.

"A lot of women, especially women of colour, they don't feel safe because of the potential repercussions," she said.

"[The complaint] might affect their job prospects, then their economic standing."

Even for those who make a successful complaint, cultural barriers persist.

Janelle Da Silva, an Asian-Australian artist based in Melbourne, took a racial discrimination complaint to the Fair Work Commission.

She reached a settlement, but said there were cultural barriers that prevented women like her from speaking up about their experience.

"It's a part of our culture, you know, to be respectful and almost even know our place in society to a degree," she said.

"We are expected to always act grateful as if we've been given an opportunity by being heard or seen all the time.

"I think that that is an illusion and I feel like that is paternalism."

Apart from cultural barriers, not knowing how to report discrimination at work was also a reason some women of colour did not make complaints, according to Lina Cabaero, coordinator for Asian Women at Work.

She said many migrant women working in hospitality, on farms and in beauty salons might not hear about unions or organisations where they could seek help.

She said another factor was that many women with migrant backgrounds weren't fluent in English.

"So most of the time, they don't get the right pay, they don't get the entitlements," Ms Cabaero said.

"But they continue working because what they get here is much better than what they will get in their country."

Creating a safer workplace

The Women of Colour Australia report found that over half of respondents said their organisations had inclusive policies.

But 30 per cent of them thought those policies were "unsuitable", meaning they were "out of date", "not as diverse", or "not implemented".

Meanwhile, 48.4 per cent of respondents said their organisations offer diversity training, with two-fifths of them finding the training useful.

The report also found many respondents wanted mentoring programs for women of colour.

Ms Gaddi said that showed they hoped to build a sense of belonging at their workplaces.

"It's about reclaiming their identity and ...that sense of belonging," she said.

"[Then] they can they feel they are seen, they are heard."

She said creating a safe workplace for women of colour requires stakeholders to understand diversity and commit to action.

"Talk is cheap, and it's not going to be overnight," she said.
The Australia Talks National Survey asked 60,000 Australians about their lives and what keeps them up at night. Use our interactive tool to see the results and how your answers compare. On iview, watch the Australia Talks TV special, as hosts Annabel Crabb and Nazeem Hussain take you through the key findings and explore the survey with some of Australia's best-loved celebrities.

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Cathy was swung around by her co-worker in a pub. She decided to speak up

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"An inclusive leader managing a diverse team must become aware of how colorism manifests not only among employees of different identities, but even among people from the same community who have different skin tones" This quote stood up to me because colorism is real especially in workplaces. This is something I will add in my documentary because my first idea was to make a documentary about the colorism Darkskin women have. Darkskin women don't get jobs because of their complexion. People say that it's a distraction to the customers but if it was white or lightskin employees, its easier for them to get a job.

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Colorism is an insidious, globally prevalent bias that deeply impacts the lives and livelihoods of darker-skinned women. The term refers not only to the preference for lighter skin between different racial and ethnic communities, but also within those communities. Colorism is an enduring vestige of colonialism and white dominance around the globe and disproportionately harms women of color. Inclusive leaders must work to prevent women of color from experiencing colorism at work - and make sure they don't leave. The author presents three ways to disrupt colorism in the workplace.

Colorism, or skin tone bias, is an insidious form of bias that impacts women with darker skin tones across ethnicities and races - and it's an issue that isn't on many leaders' radars. An inclusive leader managing a diverse team must become aware of how colorism manifests not only among employees of different identities, but even among people from the same community who have different skin tones. Disrupting these biases in action could boost inclusion profoundly.

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Colorism is an insidious, globally prevalent bias that deeply impacts the lives and livelihoods of darker-skinned women. The term refers not only to the preference for lighter skin between different racial and ethnic communities, but also within those communities. Colorism is an enduring vestige of colonialism and white dominance around the globe and disproportionately harms women of color.

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15/03/24

Today I started on my proposal form talking about what I did for the social media project that I will do better for this project. My plan to get the audience feedback was to do a survey for women in work and interviews my friends who are also women of color in Cardiff.

My idea is to film a documentary about women of color in the work industry by interviewing people such as women of color in work who have had work experience in the past or now. My aim is too get feedback from what it is like working in the workplace around white men and white women.

My target audience will be for all ages.

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Audience research

SURVEYS

SOCIAL MEDIA COMMENTS

COMMENTS FROM PEOPLE

INTERVIEW VIDEO

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19/03/24

Today, I'm working on my treatment for what I'm going to do for my video. I did this by writing a title, logline for my film and basically summarized my synopsis for the documentary.

I think it would be better if I had a better synopsis for this with more detail on what my story is about but at the same time my synopsis doesn't have to be detailed as much since I'm interviewing people and I don't know what they're going to say. I didn't do a script for this so instead, I'm gonna ask people question and getting their feedback.

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8 question survey getting people opinions and feedback of the topic.

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Target Audience

My target audience will be for women of color who currently working in jobs that go through the same thing. I feel like the target audience would reach more to Americans than people in the UK because American companies they can show they're being misogynist and race compared to the UK. The UK its more of getting rejected in a job because of your gender and ethnicity. This is a good target audience for people who are not working, so they can learn from my film.

The age will range from 15-20+ depending on the maturity and understanding of this topic.

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Hanna

Josephine Grech

Paula

Mariam

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Casting

The problem that I have encountered while planning on my production was getting people in my documentary. The reason for this is because some people don't want to be on camera and other people have never worked before and don't know what to say about this topic.

Some of the women I want to put in this documentary have said that they have never received backhanded or hateful comments from an employee whiles others said they have watched videos of people getting treated badly at work but not in real life. Because different people have different experiences, I felt inviting people who HAVE experienced being treated badly in work was a great idea to spread awareness for the woman of color in work watching.

Incase I don't find anyone, I was thinking I would invite my family members who have experienced backlash from managers or employees. Some people like my mum and aunts don't speak fluent English so they can tell their story on what's its like being foreign around white employees that know how to speak fully English.

I was thinking if I got a bunch of black women in the video who are currently unemployed, they can tell their side of the story on this topic about what it's like working around white people in schools, colleges and universities.

Script

Another problem that I have encountered was figuring out what people are going to say in the documentary. My friends were complaining about how they would get nervous and freeze in the middle of the video.

The solution that I thought of was to write a script to answer some of the questions and they can elaborate it in detail for example, one of the questions that came across my head that I put in my survey was "Do you think white men treat white women better in your job than other women of color or do you think they treat you equally?" A lot of people thought it was a yes or no question but I was expecting more explanation. I feel like a script on the side would be worth it so it can make the video stand out.

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Script

Phone

Camera

Tripod and mount

Microphone

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Cardiff

Interview 1- Butetown

Interview 2- Cardiff and vale college (library)

Interview 3- St Mellons

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Today, I'm working on the pre production planning the documentary. I doing this by writing a storyboard and script. Instead of drawing the storyboard, I decided to select pictures from the internet and then put them in order. I felt like it would be a lot easier to get the pictures from internet to get people to see the vision better.

The first person I'm going to interview is Hanna since she was the first one who insisted to help me with the filming. she also asked her mum if she wanted to be in it as well. My plan was to put more people in the documentary but cause of the time, I wasn't able to.

I booked the equipment that I needed which was the tripod and mount and I'm going to start filming the first interview this evening. In the future, i should try and use a digital camera and more equipment.

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I've done the survey which is part of my research were I had to make an 8 question survey for people to give their views and opinions to this topic.

So far I got 21 responses from employed people and unemployed people. This is good because it shows more people viewed the questions and know the understanding of the topic.

I will be sending the survey to my friends who are women of color and work in the retail stores. I think sending the survey to people that work, is a good way to find people in my documentary because they can relate to the topic and it will go to a bigger audience.

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Today, I was pitching my idea to Emma. I think my pitch went well because i had a script to read from and it was clear for Emma to understand. I also liked the way I presented it because I did some backed up research before talking about people not finding jobs in and out of the film industry in the "Content" slide.

The feedback that I got back was to find people to be in my documentary. Emma said something about "staying out of my comfort zone" which is something I need to improve on.

I also have to ask random people who are women of color such as strangers, teachers and filmmakers. I did ask the mixed race filmmaker who came to this talk in the film studio. She was talking about her experience being a black filmmaker and Emma suggested that I should email her so she can be in the documentary to speak about her experience as a mixed race director.

The feedback I got was to include evidence that I'm finding people such as messages and emails from that person i will put in the documentary.

I emailed liana about the documentary interview and she emailed back saying she unable to do it because she was in London and couldn't do it here. She thought the interview was online so she declined it due to her being scheduled.

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INTERVIEW 1

Yesterday, I started filming the first interview with my friend Hanna. I asked her 6 questions that I wrote on my phone. At first we agreed to film at Bute town Community Centre but then it got late and my friend was still in Uni, so we ended up filming at my place. She wrote a script on her phone for the answers but she managed to memories them the whole video.

Although, I should've added more questions about the bad experiences in the work because the answers were more good experiences. We ended up getting the filming done but we were laughing and giggling a lot during that moment and we had to refilm it a couple of times.

Another problem we also uncounted was the time we wasted to film this. My friend was 5 hours late after we agreed to meet at 4pm and she ended up coming at 9pm-10pm because she needed to do something and was still in Uni. We also lost focus because we were chatting way too much so we started to film at like 10:15.

Overall, I liked how the interview came out because I had a tripod which made my phone sit still and the lighting is bright and good. There was a good camera angle, I just don't like how the tripod wasn't steady enough but i made it work which was the best part.

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What's your name and where are you from ?

What type of job have you worked in?

Can you tell me your bad experiences in work?

Has a white person ever mocked you for the name you have?

What race of women do you work with?

Have you ever found it hard to look for a job because of your race and ethnicity.

Has manager ever said spoke negatively about the way you talk such as your accent?

How bad do you think women in the film industry are treated?

Do you know any female actors that were shamed for the roles they play?

Is there colorism in the industry that you know off?

Do you think men of color in the work or film industry get more hate than women of color ?

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Task

5–10-minute documentary about women of color in work/film industry

How it would look

Cinematic

Filming different location

A lot of disadvantages of women of color in work

Evidence

YouTube videos

Articles

News

Videos on social media

Sound music

Non copyright music from YouTube

Change of music

How to get Feedback

Interview with people {Black women in work)

Interviews with women/girls in college who are currently employed

Survey on forms only to women in work

TikTok research {audience on comments sections talking about there experience in work/women on TikTok making 1 minute storytime videos of how they're treated in work}

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Today I filmed the interview with Josephine in her science lab. I asked her the questions I wrote on my phone and she answered them with so much detail. She said she always wanted to do interviews like this about women of color since she's a women of color who's working.

Planning for Production

We were supposed to start filming at 1pm but we ended up starting at 4pm because she was in the middle of teaching. I didn't take my time seriously because i left my house late and i promised Josephine that I would do the interview at exact 12:30 but by then she was in a meeting so she was busy then.

The interview went well and we ended up getting it done straight away. We didn't re-film any scenes and we just went straight into it. They're some scenes that I cut out in the edit that she spoke about the most which was the film actors part. I would've gotten the whole footage on that part and put it in the edit.

Overall, i think she spoke the most out of all the people I have interviewed, she gave more facts and points on the topic. When we finished filming she also gave another point off camera about how women of color are treated in the work industry that we should've added into the video.

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Today was test screening day where everyone in the class had to show the films. My documentary went great to the point i had enough confidence and courage to show it to the class.

From my own feedback, I think that it went great because it took me a lot of time to find people to be in the documentary because everyone kept on declining until i kept trying and ended up asking my friend to ask other people to be in it which is really good and i can talk to new people and they can relate to it.

Before filming the interview, the science teacher Josephine said that she has always wanted to be in interview like this talking about her experience in the work places because she has gone through these issues in work. and i thought her response was pretty effective and good which, matched with the topic was about.

Personally i think i shouldve planned and filmed difeerent loactions. I was thinking about this while editing but i feel like if i filmed those same women doing their working jobs it wouldve made it less boring and more eye catching to the audience however, the interview on the location is great.

My first idea on the storyboard was to film the person's face while talking and then film a different angle while they're talking and then syncing the audio together like they do in other documentaries.

One of the positive feedback that i got after showing the documentary was, it looked liked an actual documentary you would see on TV because of the questions i asked and the way the women in the videos answered in detail. There was lots of facts and information talked about it the documentary and they didn't read from a script and the just spoke and was honest with themselves.

One negative feedback i got from Nick was to plan it all out because people can tell it wasn't mapped out properly from me randomly putting a shot i filmed of a logo on shops and shots outside a house. I felt like i randomly threw that in. I believe that i should've added more B roll related to the topic so it would make the documentary stand out better. I also was told to watch how documentaries are made because it seems i know how they look like I just don't know they're layed out.

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Today, i did the interview with Mariam at her house this evening. She was my friend's mum who my friend asked to be in the video to talk about her experience.

Through the filming process she spoke about her experience in the care sector but she sought of went off topic about her experience. She spent 18 minutes on that same question about her bad experience in the care sector. I had to cut the video out in the edit and added the most important part she said.

Overall the production went great and we managed to get it done on time.

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Women of color have long faced unique challenges in the workplace, from discrimination to lack of representation. However, they have also made significant contributions to various industries and continue to break barriers. It is important to recognize and support the experiences and perspectives of women of color in work to create a more inclusive and equitable environment for all.

About Me.

I'm a 20 year old black film student from Cardiff making films and documentaries
specially about women of color in the workplace. I make documentaries about equality and diversity in the media and out of the media. My target audience for my documentaries are mainly black women and women of color in general since not as much black women like me are film makers. I love to film and edit in my spare time and my favorite hobby is travelling and go out to places. In the future, I would like to travel out of the country to film movies and documentaries to people around the world.

The much-awaited documentary film Women of Colour is finally here! Immerse yourself in the stories of remarkable and inspiring women of color. Watch the trailer, read the reviews, and get ready to be moved by this powerful film.

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22/05/24

Trailer

Today, I started on the press kit by my making a website and trailer to promote my film. To make the trailer, I added a few clips from my actual film then summarized what its going to be about by using a title and wrote when the film would be released at the end of the trailer. I feel I should've made a longer version of the trailer approx. 2 minutes but it ended up hitting 56 seconds.

Website

After making the trailer, i then put my trailer into my website that I made in order to promote my film to my target audience. My website design was inspired to by liana's film website because it was effected and the theme was relatable. I did this by adding pictures of women in the workplace as my background. I think my website looks good for promoting my trailer because it has social media links and i have a synopsis on the story for the audience to see.