We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.
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It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do.
One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.
I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'
I do see the world as being different for girls - especially now, having daughters.
I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.
I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying in publishing that girls will read about boys, but boys will only read about boys, and it's important to give women strong heroines.
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
Kids are an important audience to reach for the future of the planet.