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Geena Davis On Why Hollywood Is At A Turning Point In Gender Equality

Geena Davis On Why Hollywood Is At A Turning Point In Gender Equality

by The Daily Eye Team June 9 2016, 10:02 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 30 secs

At Fast Company's FCLA event, the actor and activist discussed Hollywood's gender influence, how far equality still has to go, and more.
In 2005, Oscar-winning actress Geena Davis commissioned Stacy Smith, a researcher at the University of Sourthern California, to study why there were so few women both depicted in and making motion pictures. The study, which was released in 2014, was disturbing to say the least. Smith's research found that only 30% of characters with speaking parts in movies were not dudes. Even worse, in 2013 and 2014, women were less than 2% of the directors behind the 100 top-grossing films.

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