Geena Davis Has a Simple Way to Fix the Gender Bias in Hollywood

Geena Davis is a walking, talking font of knowledge and outrage about the representation of women in film. Her Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media has worked tirelessly for eight years to research, shed light on, and engage conversation about inequality in media and entertainment. And while female equality in Hollywood may look as dim as it does in Congress (which, by the way, is currently 19.4 percent in the House and 20 percent in the Senate), Davis—who is planning the second year of this spring’s Bentonville Film Festival, which champions women and diversity in media and guarantees distribution for all its winners—isn’t letting the data get her down. Here, she talks candidly about her agency for change, bolstered by an “impatient optimism.” Read More…