That's The Really Frustrating Thing, But Also

The Most Important Thing Is To Change What Children See From The Beginning. To Not Create A Problem We Have To Fix Later.

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.

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.

I Had Very, Very Bad Self-esteem - That I Was A Fake, Everybody Was Going To Find Out, That I Didn't Deserve To Have Success, Just About My Looks And Really, Really Bad Self-esteem.

I Had This Aunt Who Had A Career And Traveled. She'd Say Things Like, "when You Go To College, I Think We Should Go Scuba Diving In The Summer. The Scuba Diving In Portugal Is Fabulous." And I'd Be Like, "portugal! Holy Cats!".