What Abramowitz found by talking to 150 of the women executives, directors and players who have made it in the film business was that many had had to ignore or tolerate quite a lot of the type of behaviour that would have had Thelma and Louise reaching for their Magnums. Would that Mae West was still around to make the appropriate riposte. You're wasting your time and your parents' money. I don't care how you do it. I just want naked breasts.
Women directors remain the exception.
In the decade between 1983 and 1992, a period in which many barriers appeared to be being broken down by and for women in the film industry, only 81 of the 1,794 features made were directed by women. No woman has ever won an Oscar for best director and only two have been nominated - Lina Wertmuller in 1977, and Jane Campion in 1993. Her speech coincided with the publication of research that showed that 71 of all roles in feature films went to men. The only film with a plethora of strong female roles would seem to be Chicken Run. But the spectrum of opinion quoted in the book is broad.