How Geena Davis Is Increasing Jobs For Women In Hollywood

Geena Davis is back on television in FOX’s new series The Exorcist. Davis has been active in fighting for more opportunities for women in Hollywood, both in the stories they tell and the people who make them. She created The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media to promote more female characters in film and television, and more women working behind the scenes. In 2013, Davis wrote an editorial in The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Power 100 issue suggesting that screenwriters change several characters in their scripts to women, and specify that crowd scenes are made up of 50% women. Not a bad suggestion, at all. Read More…