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50/50 Day is a global event for people to engage in conversation about working towards a more gender-balanced world in all sectors of society: business, politics, culture, home, and more. The first 50/50 Day was May 10, 2017.

History
50/50 Day was created in 2016 by Tiffany Shlain, the co-founder of the non-profit Let it Ripple: Mobile Films for Global Change, founder of the Webby Awards, and the co-founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. She uses the screening of her short film, 50/50: The Past Present & Future of Women + Power, which explores the 10,000-year history of women and power, as a starting point for a day-long internet-linked question and answer session with a number of women and men with achievements in their professions and philanthropic work which relates to the topic. Shlain and Let it Ripple produced 50/50 Day, and invited schools and organizations around the world to premier the film, and then open discussions via a simultaneous online video conversation.

50/50 Day is an annual event.

Events
On May 10, 2017, the first 50/50 Day had over 10,000 events happening in all 50 states and 65 countries including one in Times Square in [New York, New York].

Among the lineup of speakers at 50/50 Day are Joyce Banda, former President of Malawi; Jennifer Finney Boylan, best-selling author, Co-Chair of Board of Directors, GLAAD; Araceli Campos, President, City of Los Angeles Commission on the Status of Women; Margaret Cho, activist and comedian; Ava DuVernay, writer, producer, director and Independent Film distributor; Vigdis Finnbogadóttir, former President of Iceland; Van Jones, activist, CNN Political Commentator, and author; Dolores Huerta, activist and Union Leader; and Eva Longoria, actress, philanthropist, founder of The Eva Longoria Foundation.