Wonder Woman and I Want To Know Where All The Awesome Women On TV Are

Geena Davis wondered why there weren't more substantive roles for women on television, so she started an institute to help figure it out. If little girls don't have anything besides supporting roles to look up to, how are they ever going to know that they can do more than just stand on the sidelines? Share this video if you think that we need more strong female characters on television.

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Geena Davis wondered why there weren't more substantive roles for women on television, so she started an institute to help figure it out. If little girls don't have anything besides supporting roles to look up to, how are they ever going to know that they can do more than just stand on the sidelines? Share this video if you think that we need more strong female characters on television.

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ORIGINAL : By the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. Found on Jezebel.

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