Please hire more women: Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham praised the audience of successful women at The Hollywood Reporter’s 2015 Women In Entertainment Breakfast for doing their bit in closing the gender gap in Hollywood.

The 29-year-old — who made THR’s Power 100 List for the second consecutive year — said, “Some girls who grew up in the ’90s dreamt of a luxury cruise with N’Sync. But my fantasy has always been a room full of Hollywood power b***hes enjoying breakfast foods.”

She said, “I want to thank all of you for brilliantly and stylishly cleaning up the mess that Hollywood has made of equality and diversity, After all, isn’t that historically what women have been asked to do to, clean up messes that don’t belong to them?”

The Girls creator finally called upon some of the high-powered execs and producers present at the brunch to consider hiring more women, people of colour and members of the LGBTQ community in the roles historically given to “white dudes in polar fleeces”.

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