As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanned.