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"Yes, we live in a world where Academy Award winner, star of two major franchises (The Hunger Games and X-Men), and overall A-list superstar Jennifer Lawrence, makes around $10 million a film, and Adam Sandler (star of flops like That&amp;#x27;s My Boy and Jack and Jill) earns north of $15 million per flick. The Women&amp;#x27;s Media Center released its latest report on the status of women in media today, and it&amp;#x27;s chock-full of jaw dropping info like this. The study details persistent gender inequality across the board for women&amp;amp;mdash;in representation, (lack of) decision-making roles, and, of course, pay scale. The center found that at the current pace, it will take until 2085 for women to reach parity with men in leadership roles in government/politics, business, entrepreneurship, and nonprofits. I see this as a challenge, since I probably won&amp;#x27;t be here in 2085, and in my lifetime, I&amp;#x27;d like for women to have the same opportunity as men to do the jobs we want, and for the same pay. (Preferably while I&amp;#x27;m still earning a paycheck.) I&amp;#x27;ve pulled out a few takeaways from the report, and if you&amp;#x27;re interested, you can read the whole thing at WomensMediaCenter.com. Ready? Here we go: In Film Only 28.4 percent of speaking roles in the top 100 films in 2013 went to women. Behind the scenes, women are behind as well. Of the top-grossing movies of 2013, women accounted for only 16 percent of the writers, directors, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers. Angelina Jolie, Forbes&amp;#x27; highest-grossing actress in Hollywood last year, makes about the same per movie as Denzel Washington and Liam Neeson (the two lowest paid male leading men), with a $33 million per movie rate. I know $33 million is a lot, but to put it in perspective, Robert Downey Jr. makes $75 million for his leading role in Iron Man. In Television Male directors outnumbered females by 4 to 1, according to a Directors Guild of America review of 3,100 episodes of prime-time television across broadcast, basic cable, and premium cable. The study, released in September 2012, reviewed the 2011-12 network television season, and more than 190 scripted series on cable. Men directed 86 percent of all episodes, and women directed 15 percent (the percentage total is 101 percent due to rounding). On Sunday talk shows (the &amp;quot;serious&amp;quot; ones), women made up only 25 percent of the guests At television stations, 98 percent employ women, but only 30 percent of news directors are women Women owned a little over 6 percent of the 1,348 full-power commercial television stations in 2011 In the News This one really struck me: Obituaries about men of note outnumber those of women by almost 75 percent By a nearly 3-to-1 margin, male front-page bylines at top newspapers outnumbered female bylines in coverage of the 2012 presidential election Men were also far more likely to be quoted than women in newspapers, television, and public radio. That&amp;#x27;s also the case in coverage of abortion, birth control, Planned Parenthood, and women&amp;#x27;s rights. The nonprofit Women&amp;#x27;s Media Center was founded in 2005 by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Glamour Women of the Year Lifetime Achievement Winner Gloria Steinem with the goal of making women and girls more powerful in the media. Their work is admirable&amp;amp;mdash;unfortunately, we still have a very long way to go."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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