In its introduction, it was admitted that the paper's obituaries had been "dominated by white men", and that the project was intended to help "address these inequities of our time".
[2][3][4][5] In May 2018, it was reported that the Times had partnered with Anonymous Content and Paramount Television to develop a drama anthology franchise based on the feature, with each season chronicling a notable woman.
[11] Padnani wrote that readers' suggestions of whom to write about "have yielded some of the most-read obituaries".
The series would be produced by Liza Chasin of 3dot Productions and Joy Gorman Wettels of Anonymous Content.
[35] In May 2019, The Waa-Mu Show at Northwestern University presented a new, student-written musical based on Amisha Padnani and the Overlooked series, entitled For the Record.