Bela Bajaria, chief content officer at Netflix, gave a powerful speech about gender equality and access to education during Variety‘s Power of Women presented by Lifetime event in Hollywood on Thursday night.
During her acceptance speech highlighting the work of education organization Room to Read, Bajaria paid homage to her two great-grandmothers, who were both married by the age of 14 and unable to pursue a college education due to cultural customs in rural India.
“My daughters are the first women in my family with freedom to forge their own path,” Bajaria said. “They stand on a lot of people’s shoulders — including my mother’s and great grandmothers’. And they know
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