Actress Geena Davis says the route to getting more women into public office lies not only in D.C — but in Hollywood. “We’re not showing female politicians in the entertainment media,” Davis, founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in the Media, said in an interview. “There’s not enough women presidents and women senators and women governors and women Congress members in what we show to kids and what we see in general. If you don’t see something, it can’t become familiar to you, it doesn’t look normal”.

Davis visited D.C. last week to speak at the Second Global Symposium on Gender in the Media at the United States Institute of Peace one day after her institute along with the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism released a study that examined female representation in the media on a global scale. The institute looked at films in the United States, China, Japan, the United Kingdom, Australia, India, France, Germany, South Korea, Russia and Brazil and found there is only 1 female shown in movies for every 2.24 males.

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