Kids' TV now at 50-50 parity
By 2020, Geena Davis's 16-year advocacy campaign had moved children's TV from a 3-to-1 male-to-female ratio to near-equal representation.
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The Borrows, Coachella, and Closing Reflections
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The conversation wraps with Geena's current moment: The Borrows is a hit, she went viral at Coachella appearing onstage with Sabrina Carpenter in a Thelma & Louise-style convertible, and she has, at last, stopped falling for men simply because they showed interest first. Dax uses the show's age-gap romance subplot as a teaching moment with his daughters — pointing out that an older woman with a younger man feels highly noticeable while the reverse never registers. Geena and Sam Jackson, it turns out, have quietly wanted to do a Long Kiss Goodnight sequel for years, and she pitches Netflix directly. The remaining runtime is a rerun Fact Check with Monica and Dax covering the Monster Jam adventure (Delta's stuffed Groot goes missing for 90 terrifying minutes), the most-watched Netflix shows by hours, the origins of the maxi pad, Seth MacFarlane's 46 combined animated TV seasons, and Monica's sleepless obsession with Penn Badgley's You.
Gender study started in 2004, parity by 2020
Geena Davis launched her landmark gender-parity research in children's entertainment in 2004, and it took roughly 16 years to achieve near-equal representation in new children's TV programs.
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