Melissa McCarthy And The Women Of The New Ghostbusters Fight For Gender Equality

Publish Date
Wednesday, 26 August 2015, 12:39PM
Each woman held up a sign indicating their role in the film.

Each woman held up a sign indicating their role in the film.

Gender equality is just as big of an issue in Hollywood as it is in most other workplaces.

Star of the new Ghostbusters movie Melissa McCarthy posted a photo to Twitter posing with all the women working on the film.

The photo includes fellow actresses Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones as well as rows of stunt doubles, producers, writers and other crew members.

McCarthy thanked Ellen host Ellen DeGeneres in the picture for her initiative to promote girl power through her Gap line of children’s clothing.

TIME reports women made up just 14% of protagonists and 30% of all speaking characters featured in the top 100 grossing films last year, according to the yearly “Celluloid Ceiling” report released by the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University.

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