#ERAnow:
Contact
your Congress members and insist they support the Equal
Rights Amendment, which would expressly
prohibit discrimination against girls and women on the basis of sex.
Kudos:
Angelina
Jolie’s By the Sea will be the first
woman-directed film to open
AFI Fest in at least a decade.
No
laughing matter: Directors Catherine Hardwicke, Nicole
Holofcenter and more take on the lack of blockbuster women directors in this Funny
or Die sketch.
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