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Posted Tuesday 4/24/18 at 5:36PM EDT
Claire Foy says The Crown pay-gap controversy "really opened my eyes about what I am allowed to have an opinion about"
“It definitely opened my eyes to a lot," she tells The Associated Press.
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Posted Wednesday 4/18/18 at 11:16PM EDT
Study: Women who watched The X-Files were 50% more likely to work in STEM fields
The study from the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media conducted earlier this year aimed to determine if women...
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Posted Tuesday 4/17/18 at 7:01PM EDT
Billions has evolved to offer TV's best critique of toxic masculinity
Season 3 has turned its attention on gender thanks to the emergence of nonbinary actor Asia Kate Dillon from a...
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Posted Wednesday 4/11/18 at 5:05AM EDT
Tina Fey credits TBS for making Mean Girls a classic, discusses how female TV writers were once treated like "expensive cappuccino machines"
Fey says she was inspired to turn Mean Girls into a musical after seeing "people from TV" -- South Park's...
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Posted Friday 3/23/18 at 9:54PM EDT
Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards last had a female host 14 years ago
The last female to helm the annual awards show was Cameron Diaz, who co-hosted with Ben Stiller in 2004.
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Posted Thursday 3/22/18 at 6:23PM EDT
Study: Women held 30% of key creative behind-the-scenes primetime TV jobs
Mount Saint Mary’s University's seventh annual “Women in Entertainment Media: The Ongoing Fight for Equality” survey also found that 11%...
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Posted Wednesday 3/21/18 at 11:27PM EDT
SNL's Michael Che under fire for the way he responds to female critics
Jezebel notes many instances where the Saturday Night Live "Weekend Update" co-host takes retaliatory offense when a woman criticizes his...
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Posted Wednesday 3/21/18 at 5:38PM EDT
Why is Chef's Table: Pastry featuring mostly men when women dominate pastry chef jobs?
"All of the top jobs in kitchens have historically been dominated by men," says Maura Judkis, "except for one: the...
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Posted Wednesday 3/21/18 at 1:47PM EDT
Queen Sugar will have an all-female directing team for Season 3
The OWN series returns on May 29 and 30 with another two-night season premiere with a new showrunner, Kat Candler.
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Posted Tuesday 3/20/18 at 9:40PM EDT
Nell Scovell's new book tells what it's like to be a female TV writer in the "Hollywood Boys' Club"
The Sabrina, the Teenage Witch creator has been through it all, as revealed in her new book Just the Funny...
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Is there a Sex and the City dismissiveness to Cynthia Nixon's candidacy for New York governor?
Yes, Nixon is and will always be closely identified with Miranda Hobbes.
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The Crown vows to change its pay structure after admitting Claire Foy earned less than Matt Smith
Smith came into The Crown as a former Doctor Who, which producer Suzanne Mackie said is why he earned more...
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Posted Friday 3/09/18 at 11:05PM EST
Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins is among the female directors who went from the big screen to small screen and back again
Female directors who've directed big-screen movies are thriving on television -- and ironically, their TV work is getting them noticed...
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Posted Friday 3/09/18 at 11:05PM EST
Quit calling Jane the Virgin a "guilty pleasure"
Soaps, the rom-com, the romance novel -- "these are the genres that get dismissed as fluff," says Emily Nussbaum, "which...
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Posted Friday 3/09/18 at 11:05PM EST
The Bachelor is an "anti-woman embarrassment," and should be dumped in the #MeToo and Time's Up era
Allison Winn Scotch, a Bachelor franchise superfan until she quit watching five years, says "I found that I felt liberated...