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No surprise, there’s a huge gender gap on the big screen

There’s new software that proves what we’ve believed all along: Female actresses don’t get as much time on the big screen as their male counterparts. The tool is called the Geena Davis Inclusion Quotient (GD-IQ), named after the actress famous for Thelma & Louise and A League of Their Own. Davis is a proponent of fair gender representation on screen.

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