16 Badass Women Who Are Changing the Game

(From left to right: Anne Kenney, Toni Graphia, Maril Davis)

Based on the book of the same title, Starz’s Outlander follows a combat nurse’s time-traveling adventures that leave her with two husbands in two different time periods. (Y’know, #otherworldlyproblems!) What truly sets the series apart is its focus on the female gaze: It’s his body that the camera lingers on and her pleasure that gets priority. The trio who bring this show to life reveal how everything that goes down in the writer’s room is really a reflection of what women crave in real life. “Yes, we give more opportunities to women,” says the trio. “But we need also need to stop thinking women are better at the romantic sex stuff, and men are just great for the actions stuff…We have some guys who can write the emotional stuff and women who can write kick-ass action.”