Actress and women's rights activist Emma Watson has spoken out about her experience with sexism in Hollywood, and provided some startling hard numbers in the process. In a recent interview with the Guardian, the United Nations Women Goodwill Ambassador underscored what she saw as the disproportionate representation of men and women in the film industry using statistics from her own career. 

"I have experienced sexism in that I have been directed by male directors 17 times and only twice by women," she said. "Of the producers I've worked with, 13 have been male and only one has been a woman."

Watson said she's lucky to have been treated equal to her male counterparts throughout her career, but only because she's fought for it. She said if women refrain from speaking up for themselves, they aren't treated equally. 

On the other hand, Watson said women are often guilty of discriminating against each other as well. "Some women can be incredibly prejudiced against other women!" Watson told the Guardian. 

She told the Guardian the gap between male and female leaders has become more apparent to her since joining the U.N. in July 2014. "I went out for a work dinner recently. It was seven men... and me," she said. 

Contrary to popular belief, Watson did say some of the strongest feminists she's worked with are men, including Stephen Chbosky, who directed her in Perks of Being a Wallflower. 

Watson isn't the first actress to shed light on Hollywood's sexism problem. When Emily Blunt visited Stephen Colbert's Late Show earlier this month to discuss her role as an FBI agent in the movie Sicario, Colbert mentioned the film almost didn't get made because it had a female lead in the action position. "Welcome to Hollywood," Blunt responded sarcastically. Among the top 100 films between 2007 and 2014, of the characters with speaking roles, nearly 70% were male. 

Back in May, the American Civil Liberties Union requested a state and federal investigation of Hollywood's sexist hiring practices. The request was armed with statistics that exposed the lack of women directors in film and television. At the most recent Oscars, no woman was nominated for best director, reports the Los Angeles Times. The first and only woman to win the Academy Award for directing was Kathryn Bigelow for Hurt Locker in 2010.

Jessica is a staff writer at Mic, covering breaking news. She is based in New York and can be reached at jessica@mic.com.

As the head of one of the most controversial organizations in the United States, Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards is no stranger to attacks. That's why she was ready Tuesday to defend her organization's work to the members of the House Oversight Committee. In addition to questions about the organization's use of federal funds, which Republicans aim to cut, or the recent series of sting videos, Richards was constantly interrupted, often with insulting, irrelevant and even false claims about Planned Parenthood's work. 

Committee chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) cut off Richards multiple times, repeatedly telling her to "hold on" rather than actually answering a query about a $200,000 payment to an advocacy group two years ago, the Huffington Post reported. Chaffetz also questioned Richards about a graph demonstrating a decrease in money spent on breast exams and an increase on abortions, which he claimed was pulled from a Planned Parenthood report. Richards rebutted the graph was from the anti-abortion group Americans United for Life, Jezebel reported. 

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) interrupted Richards several times as well, saying "this is my time" and she shouldn't "interrupt it," while Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) claimed Richards called opponents "not reasonable" when in fact she had begun to state that her organization trusts women to "make decisions about their pregnancies," according to the Huffington Post.

Richards hardly took this treatment lightly. 

"I'm being generous, calling it a 'hearing,'" Richards told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Tuesday night. "I think the whole purpose of this hearing was to convince themselves that it is OK to deny women the ability to go to the health care provider of their choice because 2.7 million women and men choose Planned Parenthood, and they were trying to say they wanted to take that choice away from them."

That so many attacks weren't even focused on the issue at hand, Richards added, was disappointing in and of itself. 

"Frankly, I was a bit dismayed at how little members of the committee even knew about women's health at all," she said.

Others came to Richards' defense, including committee member Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), who called the videos "outright falsehoods and lies" promoted by "radical anti-choice activists." Rallies and events were held across the country, and many more showed their support on social media, using the hashtags #StandWithPP and #PinkOut.

They rallied for a reason: In addition to providing abortion services that would be otherwise unattainable for many women, Planned Parenthood teaches 1.6 million students sex education every year, helps prevent 516,000 unintended pregnancies each year through birth control services, and provides nearly 400,000 Pap tests, about 500,000 breast exams, and nearly 4.5 million STI-related tests.

"It doesn't feel like we're trying to get to the truth here," Richards said at one point during the hearing — and a simple comparison of the facts of Planned Parenthood's services to the aggressive questioning that took place at the hearing only seems to bolster her observation:

Julie Zeilinger is a staff writer at Mic as well as the founder and editor of The FBomb (thefbomb.org), a feminist blog partnered with the Women’s Media Center. She is also the author of "A Little F’d Up: Why Feminism Is Not A Dirty Word" and "College 101: A Girl’s Guide to Freshman Year."