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Of the top 100 movies released in 2019, women took just under 11 percent of the directing roles, despite hitting record. Fast Facts Of the top 100 movies released in 2019, women took just under 11 percent of the directing roles. The number of women directing major movies more than doubled to the highest mark ever last year, though they still only accounted for a sliver of those coveted jobs. Women got almost 11% of the directing roles for the top 100 movies released in 2019, according to a study released Thursday by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative at the University of Southern California. Improving diversity has became a major rallying cry across Hollywood, where women routinely have fewer opportunities than men. For example, there ar...

11-year-old Cen Xiaolin can move his legs faster than most people can count. The boy recently set a new rope skipping world record by completing a whopping 108 skips in just 30 seconds! That’s so fast that you can’t even see the rope. In fact, judges at the first World Inter-School Rope Skipping Championships, in Dubai, simply couldn’t keep up with him. They were unable to count Cen’s steps while he was skipping, as it was all a bit of a blur. They had to rewatch the footage in slow-motion eight times to verify the exact number of steps. Later, he broke another record by skipping 548 times in three minutes. Cen said that he learned skipping at his school, Seven Star Primary, located on the outskirts of Guangzhou city in South China. The school started giving teachers and studen...

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Women film directors set a record in 2019: New study

11-Year-Old Skips Rope 108 Times in 30 Seconds, Sets New World Record