Barbra Streisand is on cover of Variety Magazine: ‘I think women are more powerful than men’

Two-time Oscar winner Barbra Streisand is on the cover of this week’s issue of Variety Magazine and she’s looking amazing.

The interview is getting all kinds of attention because Streisand shares that she cloned her favorite dog.

But I found far more interesting what the director of Yentl, The Prince of Tides, and The Mirror Has Two Faces has to say about sexism in the movie business.

“I didn’t know it was a glass ceiling,” she says about her decision to step behind the camera. “I just thought, they don’t believe in a woman’s capacity to handle finances or to be the businessman. Years ago, I was told, ‘You want control? A woman wants control? That’s crazy!’”

She’s blistering about the mistreatment and inequality of women in Hollywood and the negligence of an industry that has failed to create more opportunities for female filmmakers. In her long-in-the-works memoir, Streisand devotes a chapter to “The Boys’ Club.” When will her book see the light of day? “I have no idea.”

Streisand has been a Hollywood trailblazer for five decades, creating a climate where discussions about equal treatment for women could even exist. “I have a line in one of my journals,” she says, flipping through binders filled with pencil-written notes. “It was actually about how we’re giving you” — she nods to her male interviewer — “the benefit of the doubt that we’re equal. I think women are more powerful than men.”