Today, female gymnasts still embody the fantasy of childhood innocence amid superlative physical accomplishment. But the silence part—that’s been over since last winter, when what may be the biggest sex scandal in the history of sports received its spotlight moment. Nearly 160 accusers gathered in a courtroom in Lansing, Michigan, to face Nassar, who had preyed upon them and their peers for more than a quarter-century. A new archetype was being created: the righteously angry gymnast.

On Saturday, Sophie Trudeau also spoke to the youth-led activism happening across the globe, and emphasized that both girls and boys need to be encouraged and raised as activists. ‘There is no doubt that women and children on this planet are the people who suffer the most on many levels . . . Lots of boys around this planet are being taught right now that girls are lesser than them. This is toxic to everybody, and boys deserve better.”

Nearly 7 in 10 Americans say significant obstacles to gender parity in the workplace still exist, a number that rises to almost 80 percent among millennial women. Most female millennials—65 percent—believe this inequality is due to sexism, and 55 percent believe that having too few women in leadership roles contributes to the problem. Almost half of African-American millennial women cite biased interview processes as a major hurdle. A huge percentage of female millennials—68 percent—believe that women make less money than men for doing similar jobs, and 66 percent believe men have more opportunities to be promoted to top positions.

All successful entrepreneurs imagine a problem, a product, and a market. But because the default founder in Silicon Valley is male, and white or Asian, a black woman must also “envision herself being the person creating the product or service that is in the world,” says Jessica O. Matthews, founder and C.E.O. of the renewable-energy start-up Uncharted Play—and then get funders to buy into that vision. The tech industry is an exercise in controlled failure, with as many as 81 percent of all funded start-ups washing out before exiting; “fail fast” is part of the religion. But black women must guard against even the hint of failure with every arrow in the quiver, lest naysayers see a shortcoming as evidence that blacks or women are categorically unsuited for the business.

ithout staff or funding, and with the pressing demands of life and work, the 50/50 meetings fell off, but loose-knit connections remained, aided by dial-up e-mail. And that community, says Coolidge, “gave rise to all these new communities now.” Many a young woman in the film trade, upon encountering someone from the group, has been heard to remark, with awe, “You were at Miramar?”

Movies like Wonder Woman and The Force Awakens have laid groundwork for equality in how action stars are presented—and clothed. As Hollywood's post-Weinstein reckoning continues, those efforts matter even more; as Michael Kaplan, costume designer for The Last Jedi, said this month, “There’s wonderful strong women in this film, much more than we’ve seen ever before in a Star Wars film. And I think it’s reflecting what’s going on [in the news].”

Brave aside, Pixar has only released two other stories with a female protagonist: Inside Out, a heartwarming feature about a girl coming to grips with her emotions, and Finding Dory, the blockbuster sequel to Finding Nemo. Yet Chapman is still the only woman who has ever directed a Pixar film, even partially. There are no women attached to any of the studio’s upcoming films, which include Incredibles 2 and Toy Story 4—despite the fact that Lasseter himself directly addressed the studio’s lack of gender and racial parity back in 2015, promising that the studio was working on more films with “female and ethnic characters.”

“I started saying to my agents, ‘Don’t send me scripts where the first adjective in the female description is ‘beautiful.’ And if the second is ‘enigmatic,’ throw it in the trash.’ The word ‘enigmatic’ means ‘Her backstory doesn’t matter.’

Rhimes is the third black woman to join the ranks of honorees; Oprah Winfrey was the first to be inducted in 1993, followed by actress and singer Diahann Carroll, who was inducted in 2011.