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We are winning battles, but not the war. The renaissance is real, but fragile.

The #MeToo movement highlighted systemic sexism, but before that, smart actresses took matters into their own hands. Reese Witherspoon (producer of Big Little Lies and The Morning Show ) and Nicole Kidman (producer of Big Little Lies , Destroyer ) used their star power to option novels specifically about complex mature women. They realized they couldn't wait for a man to write the role; they had to commission it themselves.

Mature women often find their greatest success when they stop waiting for roles and start creating them.