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Tessa Thompson; Armie Hammer (AP/Vianney Le Caer/Getty/Rich Polk)

Thompson, Armie Hammer take 4% challenge

Zack Sharf - Indiewire

Reese Witherspoon as Mrs. Whatsit and Storm Reid as Meg Murry in "A Wrinkle in Time" (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)

MeToo? Fewer women directed top movies

Frances McDormand accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role at the Oscars on Sunday, March 4, 2018. (AP/Chris Pizzello)

McDormand's Oscar win was for all women

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Proof that Hollywood is failing women

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Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay (Getty/Mike Windle)

It's still white and male behind cameras

Margaret Qualley in "Novitiate" (Sony Pictures Classics)

A film on nuns gets female casting right

Alexandra Clinton

Downton Abbey star on roles for women

Harvey Weinstein (Getty/Drew Angerer)

Harvey Weinstein bombshell exposé

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"Vice Principals" star redefines casting

"Lord of the Flies" (Columbia Pictures)

"Lord of the Flies" for women

James Cameron (Getty/Alberto E. Rodriguez)

Cameron bashes "Wonder Woman"

Actor on female representation

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Ryan Murphy (Getty/Frazer Harrison)

Women directors make TV better

Tamblyn takes stand for women

Alexandra Clinton

Amber Tamblyn (AP/Christopher Smith)

Drunk, violent, grieving

Alexandra Clinton

Amy Schumer's brilliant "SNL"

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Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus

“Stop. Working. For. Free.”

Nicola Kraus, Emma McLaughlin

Charlize Theron, Meryl Streep, Ava DuVernay (AP/Reuters/Chris Pizzello/Mario Anzuoni/Kevork Djansezian)

Hollywood is a cesspool

Katie McDonough

Jennifer Lawrence in "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1", Rosamund Pike in "Gone Girl", Jodie Foster in "The Silence of the Lambs"

Sexism in Hollywood

Jill Soloway (AP/Victoria Will)

Where's the female Woody Allen

Heather Havrilesky

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