Why has the documentary category made deeper strides than the awards’ narrative categories? Perhaps it’s because the barriers to entry are lower. While an Oscar-winning doc can be made on a shoestring, pulling off the same task for a narrative film is much harder.

Last year’s controversy prompted a review of cast salaries across all its productions, both in-house and third-party. “We were able to find a couple of other ones we were able to adjust,” chief of content Ted Sarandos confirmed, without specifying any of the actors or productions with salaries out of alignment.

"Despite media billing, Sandberg was never a feminist icon. But for many feminists, she was the rare example of a high-up woman in the corporate world at least integrating feminist thought into her work, and advocating for gender equality in a male-dominated tech space, where even bringing up gender has been a professional liability."

The low pay, the body-shaming, the Draconian rules about appearance and behavior that apply to cheerleaders but not to players—these are not the work of a few rogue coaches or lecherous owners. The N.F.L.’s current crisis, in fact, is the result of a series of carefully crafted marketing plans put into place by teams across the league in the 1970s to sell sex on the sidelines.

“I think women are very practical with their money. They’re worried about the day-to-day. Book collecting just seems like a little bit of a frivolous endeavor. But when you actually look at the issue at hand—which is that women aren’t collected and women’s voices don’t take as much room physically on shelves—then you see it as a mission and a purpose. And that your pursuit of these books can actually make a difference.”

"If it happens at that moment, you discuss it at that moment," Lohan said. "You make it a real thing by making it a police report. I'm going to really hate myself for saying this, but I think by women speaking against all these things, it makes them look weak when they are very strong women. You have these girls who come out, who don't even know who they are, who do it for the attention. That is taking away from the fact that it happened."

“There are so many writers now working in TV, and there is so much television, that when people say, ‘I’d love to develop a show with a Latino writer, but I don’t know anyone,’ we put a packet together of people we represent,” explained Haubegger of how the database started. “Then we started expanding beyond CAA clients. Soon it was, ‘Let’s build this.’ I just want to take the excuse away. No one should be able to say, ‘I couldn’t find one.’”

Jennifer Lee has been named chief creative officer at Disney. In a company with a difficult legacy in its treatment of female storytellers, Lee has been an advocate for humanizing female characters—she is the person to thank, for instance, for the fact that Anna in Frozen has gas.