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“Belle is not baking a cake!” Linda Woolverton was on her way to becoming the studio’s first credited female screenwriter, and she was increasingly frustrated with many of the male writers she worked with. She stared disbelievingly at the storyboards in front of her. In her script she had written a scene where Belle puts pushpins in a map to signify all the areas of the world she wants to explore. The writers adapting her scene into storyboards had changed the setting and action, placing Belle in a kitchen decorating a cake. It was the kind of editorial change that made her lean over and literally bang her head on the table before her in exasperation. - The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History



















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Despite the surge in female protagonists in film and TV, the truth is women made up only 16% of employees on the top 250 films in 2013. Despite the depressing numbers, women are still making their mark.













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Disney’s ink and paint department, fancifully recreated in The Reluctant Dragon (1941).