When Geena Davis waded through the miasma of G-rated movies with her young daughter, she noticed a troubling phenomenon: male characters outnumbered female characters by a pretty striking margin. What's more, male characters were more often portrayed in leadership positions, meaning that, if a young female viewer were…

At the Women's Foundation of Colorado, Academy Award-winning actress Geena Davis spoke about gender stereotyping in films and her personal career experiences with the issue. Her nonprofit, the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, works with industry producers to increase and strengthen depictions of women in…

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Six years ago, Geena Davis starting watching children's TV and videos with her then two-year-old daughter. Davis thought she'd find cute, educational fare; instead she found a disturbing gender imbalance.

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