The £500 Elaine C Smith Student Prize for young women in acting will support students at New College Lanarkshire.
Veteran Scots actress Elaine C Smith said young women entering creative roles deserve more support as she recalled some were labelled “mad feminists” for raising concerns about sexism in the 1980s.
She acknowledged the situation today is “better than it was” when she started out, but said women still need more encouragement and support in the arts. She added: “You had to know if you said too much, or were too vocal in the 1980s when I started and all that. “Also there were so few jobs for women that the women who had the jobs hung on to them and were actually terrified of the new women coming up behind them, and I vowed that I never wanted to be that woman.”
Top showbiz news Smith said: “I do know that, without getting political about it, that 10 or more years of austerity, given that there’s certainly a thought process across political parties in the south in Westminster, to shut down Scotland.
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