{"id":2124168,"date":"2025-10-30T05:36:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2124168"},"modified":"2025-10-30T05:36:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:36:05","slug":"wanda-sykes-loves-hiring-women-over-men-and-if-shes-a-black-woman-you-got-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wanda-sykes-loves-hiring-women-over-men-and-if-shes-a-black-woman-you-got-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanda Sykes Loves Hiring Women Over Men: \u2018And If She\u2019s a Black Woman, You Got the Job\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wanda Sykes<\/a> accepted honors at Variety\u2019s Power of Women L.A. event on Wednesday evening, taking the stage for a speech in which she got candid about her preference for hiring women over men as a producer.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy joy is when I\u2019m able to hire somebody. And you know who I like to hire? Women. \u2026 I\u2019ll be upfront with you. When it comes to a position and I look on the paper \u2014 she might be right here, and he\u2019s up there,\u201d Sykes<\/a> said, putting out both of her hands, with the \u201cman\u201d one slightly elevated above the \u201cwoman\u201d one. \u201cI\u2019m hiring the woman. That\u2019s just how I operate. And I\u2019ll be honest with you, if she\u2019s a black woman \u2014 oh, pssh. Girl, you got the job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sykes drew applause from the crowd, before the stand-up went back in to build to a laugh line: \u201cWhen women thrive,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wanda Sykes accepted honors at Variety\u2019s Power of Women L.A. event on Wednesday evening, taking the stage for a speech in which she got candid about her preference for hiring women over men as a producer. \u201cMy joy is when I\u2019m able to hire somebody. And you know who I like to hire? Women. \u2026 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2124169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2124168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Wanda-Sykes-Loves-Hiring-Women-Over-Men-\u2018And-If-Shes.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2124168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2124170,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124168\/revisions\/2124170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2124169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}