Meryl Streep has long been considered at the forefront of pushing for better equality for women.
Now the 66-year-old actress has revealed that an exposé on the lack of young female filmmakers will hopefully make Hollywood sit up and take notice.
At a recent Q&A at Telluride Film Festival, Meryl told reporters: ‘[Female filmmakers] do exist, they graduate, they’re good – and then they don’t get hired.
‘Why?’
She then added: ‘Maureen Dowd is writing a great big exposé about this question in The New York Times Magazine, coming up soon.’
Meryl’s new film Suffragette follows the early days of the British suffrage movement and the determination of women to obtain their right to vote.
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