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\n\tTHR<\/em>\u2018s Women in Entertainment issue has always been a barometer of progress. When the power list debuted in 1992, one Hollywood executive joked that the only place she saw fewer women was on a football field. The landscape has changed dramatically since then. Women now run studios, networks, agencies and streaming platforms and oversee sports divisions. Back then, this magazine\u2019s editors struggled to fill a list of 100 industry powerhouses. Now our biggest challenge is deciding (begrudgingly) whom to leave off.<\/p>\n \n\tBut that progress has always come with an asterisk. An anonymous new THR<\/em> survey of under-35 female execs tells the story. Fifty-nine percent of respondents say it\u2019s easier to be a young woman in Hollywood than it was a decade ago; a majority say they feel supported by senior female leaders; and nearly half believe #MeToo has meaningfully changed the industry for the better. And yet, more than four out of five say they need to work harder than their male counterparts \u2014 a reminder of the chasm that still exists between \u201cbetter\u201d and \u201cequal.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe work of widening that circle extends beyond these pages. Our WIE mentorship program, created with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles, pairs high school girls from underserved communities with influential women in town. The program has helped send alums to Harvard, USC, UCLA, Columbia, Chapman and Loyola Marymount on full scholarships, many of them the first in their families to set foot on a college campus. If the Power 100 is the glossy barometer of how far Hollywood has come, these students are the clearest argument for where it needs to go next.<\/p>\n \n\tThis year\u2019s event honors Gwyneth Paltrow with the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award, now in its 20th year, and Jennifer Lopez with the Equity in Entertainment Award. They join an extraordinary roster of past recipients who turned their careers into platforms for change, starting with the legendary studio chief for whom Paltrow\u2019s award is named.<\/p>\n \n\tWhile women in Hollywood have achieved a kind of status that would have been hard to imagine in 1992, we\u2019ll know that they\u2019ve achieved true parity when it is obsolete. Because if power in this town were truly gender-neutral, the WIE Power 100 would be a charming relic instead of the most closely read list in Hollywood.<\/p>\n \n\tMaer Roshan,<\/em><\/p>\n \n\tEditor-in-Chief <\/em><\/p>\n \n\t@MaerRoshan<\/p>\n \n\t***<\/p>\n \n\tThe Mentees<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tAndrea John F. Kennedy High School<\/p>\n \n\tAngela City Honors High School<\/p>\n \n\tAudrey John F. Kennedy High School<\/p>\n \n\tChloe Los Angeles High School of the Arts<\/p>\n \n\tCierra John F. Kennedy High School<\/p>\n \n\tDanait Roybal Film and Television Magnet<\/p>\n \n\tDestiny Compton High School<\/p>\n \n\tJanae City Honors High School<\/p>\n \n\tKayla Birmingham Community Charter High School<\/p>\n \n\tKayleen Hamilton High School<\/p>\n \n\tNatalia Birmingham Community Charter High School<\/p>\n \n\tOriana City Honors High School<\/p>\n \n\tSandi Dominguez High School<\/p>\n \n\tSophia John F. Kennedy High School<\/p>\n \n\tStephanie \u00c1nimo Watts College Prep<\/p>\n \n\tStephany Compton High School<\/p>\n \n\tTarada Birmingham Community Charter High School<\/p>\n \n\tValerie \u00c1nimo Inglewood Charter High\u202fSchool<\/p>\n \n\tDanielle Stokdyk<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tPresident of Levitan Productions, executive producer of Nobody Wants This<\/em><\/p>\n \n\tDr. Eve Glazier<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tPresident of UCLA Health Faculty Practice<\/p>\n \n\tAli Woodruff<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tSenior U.S. programming executive at Apple TV<\/p>\n \n\tJenna Santoianni<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tPresident of TV at MRC<\/p>\n \n\tMeredith Roberts<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tExecutive vp, CEO of Disney Television Animation<\/p>\n \n\tBree Frank<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tSenior production executive at Amazon-MGM Studios\u2019 Evolution Media<\/p>\n \n\tSumi Parekh<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tExecutive director of Group Effort Initiative<\/p>\n \n\tMyiea Coy<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tSenior vp television at Confluential Media<\/p>\n \n\tDana Lipman<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tGeneral counsel at the Entertainment Industry Foundation<\/p>\n \n\tJody Gerson<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tCEO of Universal Music Publishing Group<\/p>\n \n\tMegan Byce<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tHead of public figure and creator partnerships at Meta<\/p>\n \n\tAdia Matthews<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tVice president of partnership marketing at Hulu<\/p>\n \n\tLauren Townsend<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tExecutive vp corporate communications at Fox<\/p>\n \n\tIvette Rodriguez<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tPresident and founder of American Entertainment Marketing<\/p>\n \n\tNicole Martin<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tLegal program director at the Entertainment Industry Foundation, Know Your Rights Camp<\/p>\n \n\tMichelle Weiner<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tCo-head of CAA\u2019s books division<\/p>\n\n\t\tTHR <\/em>Celebrates the WIE Class of 2025\t<\/h2>\n
\n\t\tAnd Now Their Mentors\t<\/h2>\n