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\"With the increased commitment to parity across the entertainment community in recent years, we are seeing an uptick in the number of women working in front of and behind the camera. We cannot lose this important momentum because of entertainment job losses related to the COVID-19 crisis,\" Amy Baer, WIF board president, said in a statement.

A release for the campaign states that \"roughly half a million jobs in the entertainment sector have been lost in recent months,\" according to estimates from the Motion Picture Association found in a Variety report from May.

Grants from the Hire Her Back Fund will be administered by The Actors Fund. Shivani Rawat, founder and CEO of ShivHans Pictures, has already contributed seed funding, according to WIF.

\"With the convergence of a pandemic and the national uprising in defense of Black lives, it must be made clear that current market structures have to be transformed if we are serious about creating equity,\" WIF Executive Director Kirsten Schaffer said in a statement.

\"We call on leaders to join us in building a new normal that prioritizes equity and career sustainability for women, especially Women of Color, in the screen industries,\" Schaffer's statement continued.

Read more about the campaign here.

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