2016’s Top Grossing Films Leave Women’s Roles Behind

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Tue, 01/17/2017 - 10:34pm

2016’s Top Grossing Films Leave Women’s Roles Behind 2016 seemed like a big year for women at the box office: Rogue One, the first Star Wars movie outside the franchise, had a female protagonist in Felicity Jones’ Jyn Erso and became the highest-grossing movie of last year in the U.S.

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