The focus on telling women’s stories and highlighting female voices is a response, Poehler has said, to the fact that she spent most of her 20s and 30s subsuming her own comedic voice in order to fit in.

“I’ve been trying to unpack my own deep institutionalised misogyny,” Poehler told The Hollywood Reporter. “Our generation of women, Gen Xer women, we desexualised ourselves. And that stuff gets really ingrained. I grew up in a time where trying to sympathise or empathise with the male experience was how I was able to be included in the experience.”

But no longer. As Poehler described one of her new projects coming soon to Netflix, the time is right for some “coming-of-rage” stories led by women. And we can’t think of a better person than Poehler to tell them.

Amy Poehler just expertly dismantled the ‘women vs women’ myth