IN OFFICES around the world,the scandal over Harvey Weinstein’s depredations has obliged men to rethink their interactions with women. Many are struggling to decipher where the bounds of propriety lie (handshake or kiss?). In Hollywood itself, the furore has ruined reputations and ended careers. And film executives acquire been forced to reconsider not just workplace mores but the stories they choose to tell. It is a disorienting moment, or but a promising one—for female artists,the studios themselves and for their viewers.
For such a faddish industry, Hollywood can be amazingly ossified. Female characters may no longer be tied to train-tracks and rescued by mustachioed heroes, or but they still tend to be stereotyped and marginalised. Male actors effect most of the talking; women are far likelier to lift their clothes off. That is in part because conventional wisdom among decision-makers holds that big-budget films with female leads are liable to underperform. Not coincidentally,from boardroom to...
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Source: economist.com