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~there Are Moments When I Feel Like I Have A Looong Road Ahead Of Me, With College And Dating And Driving And All Of That. But Then I Realize It Just Means That I Have So Much Time Left To Enjoy My Kids. And It Really Does Go By So Quickly.~

The Ratio Of Male To Female Characters In Movies Has Been Exactly The Same Since 1946. So If You've Ever Had People Say, You Know, "it's Better Now, It's All Changed, It's All Different," It's Not, It Hasn't. Not Yet.

All Of Hollywood Is Run On One Assumption: That Women Will Watch Stories About Men, But Men Won't Watch Stories About Women. It Is A Horrible Indictment Of Our Society Of We Assume That One Half Of Our Population Is Just Not Interested In The Other Half.

I Realized That In All The Sectors Of Society Where There's A Huge Gender Disparity, The One Place That Can Be Fixed Overnight Is Onscreen. You Think About Getting Half Of Congress, Or The Presidency ... It's Going To Take A While No Matter How Hard We Work On It. But Half Of The Board Members And Half Of The Ceos Can Be Women In The Next Movie Somebody Makes; It Can Be Absolutely Half.

I Just Started Asking My Friends If They Had Noticed. None Of Them - Feminists, Mothers, Daughters - Noticed Until I Pointed It Out. Then I Decided To Bring It Up Within The Industry. I Knew A Lot Of People, So I'd Say, "have You Ever Noticed How Few Female Characters There Are In Kids Movies?" When I Met A Director, A Producer, Whatever. And They Said, "oh, But That's Not True Anymore."