For the first time ever, a woman is in charge of day-to-day operations on The Walking Dead, as longtime writer and producer Angela Kang has taken over showrunning duties. But the focus on female leadership will be seen on screen as well as off for season 9, with core women characters moving to the center of the action, calling the shots and then dealing with the ramifications of those decisions.

“One thing many girls were asking for was different body types. In animation, characters all sort of look the same, there are similar body types based on model sheets, but here every female character has a different body from the other characters. They were also very open to the ethnic and religious diversity of the cast.”

The Jessica Jones and Defenders director is in talks to helm Star Trek 4 for Paramount Pictures. If a deal is reached, Clarkson will become the first woman to direct a film in the long-running sci-fi franchise.

"It’s a huge honor. I hope that it’s the first of many. If it serves as nothing else, I hope it inspires more women to get behind the camera and become cinematographers."

“We’re starting, and it’s starting with these extraordinary actresses and brave ladies,” he said. “We, as men, have got to be part of it, you know? We started it, so we have to be part of the solution.”

“Because everyone keeps asking me… YES, the men WILL be standing in solidarity with women on this wearing-all-black movement to protest against gender inequality at this year’s Golden Globes,” Urbinanti wrote in a post to Instagram. “At least ALL MY GUYS will be. Safe to say this may not be the right time to choose to be the odd man out here… just sayin…”

“Great American Novelist” has long been a pretty masculinized term, a way of jumping straight to names with the largest cultural visibility at the expense of women and people of color. And even as organizations like the National Book Foundation have made strides over the past few decades, a rather stunning fact has remained true: While eight men have won the prestigious National Book Award for fiction multiple times, including such legends as William Faulkner, John Cheever, and John Updike, no woman has ever done so. Until Wednesday night.