On Monday, L.A. Weekly’s cover story, “How Hollywood Keeps Out the Stories of Women and Girls,” reported on the dearth of films written by women, or that allow women to speak on screen, or star women, or tell stories about the actions, thoughts or lives of women and girls. According to new research by Stacy L. Smith at USC, just 11 percent of the mainstream film industry’s 100 top-grossing movies of 2014 were written by females, and 19 percent had women producers. One result: Only 28 percent of characters who spoke in any capacity on screen were female, in a world more than 50 percent female.

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