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I Have A Web Site That Parents And Girls Can Use To Learn About Title Ix And Take Action If They Find Their School Is Not In Compliance. Thirty Years After Title Ix Passed, 80 Percent Of Schools Are Not In Compliance.

An Eye-opening Moment In My Life, A Very Defining Moment, Was The First Time I Met Susan Sarandon [before Shooting Thelma & Louise]. We Were Going To Meet, Just Ridley [scott] And Susan And I, To Go Through The Script And See If We Had Any Thoughts Or Ideas. I Was Reading The Script, And In The Most Girly Way Possible, Meaning That If It Was A Line That Could Change Or Something Different I'd Like To See, I Would Think About Each One And Say, "well, This One Can Wait Till The Set Because I Don't Want To Bring Up Too Many Things."

That's The Really Frustrating Thing, But Also The Fixable Thing. My Theory Why No One Notices Is That That's The [women's Roles] Ratio Thing They Grew Up With. It's Just Been That Way Forever, So They Don't See It.

Any Movie You See, If Tom Cruise Is In An Action Movie Or Whatever It Is, The Avengers, There's Going To Be A Kick-ass Female Character. Usually One. And There's A Term For This, But I Don't Know What It Is. But Someone's Coined A Term Where There's One Female Character Who's Incredibly Tough And Strong And Just As Good As The Guys At Whatever It Is They’re Doing, And Usually Wearing Black, Skin-tight Clothes, And [she] Has No Personality Whatsoever, And Is Not Funny.

Behind The Cameras, There's A Different Problem, Which I Think Is Not Unconscious Gender Bias. It's Probably Categorized More As Conscious Gender Bias. Because Everybody's Known The Numbers For Decades. Nobody's Stunned To Hear There Are Very Few Female Directors, Only 4 Or 7 Percent. Everybody Knows, But It Doesn't Change Anything. It Doesn't Make People Say, "wow! We Should Change That." Nothing Happens. It's Utterly Stagnant.