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Is Anyone Even Surprised Anymore to Hear That an Actress Makes “Significantly Less” Than Her Male Co-Star?

When employees are told not to talk about pay, it's not like we don't all know who that benefits.

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A Man Asked Sharon Stone If She’d Ever Experienced Harassment & Maybe One Day She’ll Stop Laughing

For most women, the fact that Cowan really doesn't know why Stone is laughing is probably not that surprising, but still maddening. Laughable, even.

Here’s Our First(ish) Look at Daisy Ridley as a Not-So-Helpless Ophelia

Whether or not the movie lives up to my hopes, I'm incredibly excited at even the idea of reimagining such a complex, undervalued character through a feminist lens. And that's not a knock at Shakespeare. I wouldn't dream. But we saw Ophelia through Hamlet's eyes–that was the entire point.

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The Inspiration and Disappointment of the Golden Globes’ Red Carpet

Leading up to Sunday's Golden Globes awards, there have been criticisms of the night's planned "red carpet blackout"–the decision of women and men in the industry to wear black to the event–and questions of how big of an impact a fashion-based silent protest could actually make?

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Things We Saw Today: Dear Hollywood, Please Give Tiffany Haddish All the Awards and Also Let Her Host Every Ceremony. Thank You.

Tiffany Haddish won Best Supporting Actress at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards and her acceptance speech is one of the greatest speeches–one of the greatest awards show moments, really–of recent history, if not ever.

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Meryl Streep Finally Addresses That Time Dustin Hoffman Allegedly Assaulted Her On Set

Meryl Streep finally discusses the time Dustin Hoffman allegedly slapped her on the set of Kramer vs. Kramer, but she still doesn't want to talk about Harvey Weinstein.

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12 Female-Led Movies We’re Excited to See in 2018

It's a new year, with a whole new slate of movies to be excited about. 2017 saw a growing number of female-led films, but since women aren't a passing trend, that doesn't look to be slowing down. Here are some of the films we're excited to see this year.

If You Were Planning on Being an Abusive, Sexist Predator in Hollywood, Its Women Say #TIMESUP

The end of 2017 was all about expressing solidarity and speaking truth to power in the realm of Hollywood sexism and abuse. 2018 is all about taking action. You thought there was a reckoning before? It's only just started. For those who would abuse, prey on, or otherwise demean or diminish women in any industry: time's up.

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Women are Leading Every Episode of Black Mirror Season 4 (In Front of Camera, at Least)

Season four of Black Mirror hits Netflix tomorrow, and according to executive producer Annabel Jones, every one of the six episodes will center on a female protagonist. The show has a solid history of producing great woman-centric content (the incredible episode "San Junipero" springs immediately to mind, but it's not an outlier in the first three seasons), so this is a nice step to expand on that already great precedent.

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Harvey Weinstein’s Former Assistant Sheds Light on a “Repulsive Monster”

After over 20 years of being gagged by a non-disclosure agreement, Zelda Perkins, former assistant to Harvey Weinstein at Miramax Films in the 1990s, has decided to break that agreement to open up about her former boss, whom she calls a "repulsive monster." In doing so, she sheds a light on the machinations and motivations of a power-hungry man, who thrived on humiliating others.