The boring, irrelevant, ridiculously inconsequential Sex

I have just found out, from reading Salon Magazine, that there is such a thing as a Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University--shades of all those studies which have been done to see how much attention is paid by teachers to girls who raise their hands in class compared to boys who raise their hands in class.  And, not at all surprisingly, the San Diego State University Center for the Study of Women (compared to Men) in Television and Films publishes a yearly review of the relative percentages of female protagonists in movies (in 2014, 12%), speaking characters (30%), and secondary roles (29% of major characters).  And behind the scenes, things are even "worse":  Women make up only 17% of directors, writers, executive producers, producers, editors and cinematographers.  Really.  As if it mattered.