In March 2018, actor Frances McDormand won the Best Actress award at the 90th Academy Awards. In her acceptance speech, she referred to a little-known contractual clause that left viewers scratching their heads.
"I have two words to leave with you tonight, ladies and gentlemen: 'inclusion rider,'" she said.
An inclusion rider is a provision in an actor's, director's or content creator's contract that requires a certain level of diversity among a film's cast and crew. For example, an actor could request that a certain proportion of the production crew be LGBTQ, people of color or women.
On April 1, President Joe Biden announced that the co-author of the inclusion rider clause, Kalpana Kotagal, is a nominee to serve as a commissioner on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
Who Is Kalpana Kotagal?
The daughter of immigrants from India, Kotagal is an employment attorney with the law firm Cohen Milstein in Washington, D.C., and a diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) expert.
Kotagal represents disenfranchised people in employment and civil rights litigation related to issues involving Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Pay Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and the Fair Labor Standards Act, according to a press release from the White House.
She is also the co-chair of the Alumni Advisory Board on Equity & Inclusion at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, a member of the American...
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