
For every Mark Zuckerberg, there’s a Joy Mangano for every Jerry Maguire, a J.C. The movies on this list feature not just female leads, but female entrepreneurs and bosses who had to pull themselves up by their high heel straps and figure out how to succeed in a man’s world. That gives you a little higher than a one-in-three chance of watching a movie with a female lead - why not increase the odds? It could be one of Netflix’s newest originals or a mainstream Hollywood flick currently showing in theaters - How were the women (if any) portrayed? Were they the bosses of companies or girlfriends to male leads? According to a 2018 report by the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, women accounted for 36% of major characters in top grossing films.


Jennifer Lawrence, who plays Joy Mangano in the 2015 biopic, slaying it on the red carpet.
