Calamity Jane

Women Dept: Almost every week it seems there is another magazine cover declaring that women are taking over the world and leaving contemporary men in their dust, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Such disparity has given rise recently to a movement of several women's groups demanding 50/50 by 2020. They are organizing speakouts south of the border about the continued and unacceptable exclusion of women from the main stages of global theatre and daune Campbell as Calamity Jane. A bastion of maledom that has yet to be overrun by the rise in matriarchy is theatre, where today female playwrights write as few as 30 per cent of the plays seen on our stages. Fewer than 17 per cent of all plays produced in the United States are written by females. Only 11 per cent of all plays produced on Broadway are penned by women. Those numbers especially rankle women in light of the fact that the typical theatre audience is 65-70 per cent female. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.