Things to research – topics, keywords, etc.:

• history of television
• television industry (current)
• women in comedy
• feminist film/TV studies / media studies
• female writers, producers, creators, showrunners
• depictions of women in leadership roles on TV
• keywords: comedy, women, television, feminist, leadership, Tina Fey

Possible resources:

• Books
  • history of America TV/comedy/entertainment/media, to get a historical context
  • memoirs and autobiographies, for first-hand accounts, anecdotes, insider perspective
• Interviews
• the shows themselves
• articles from periodicals about:
  • feminist media studies
  • popular film and television
  • cultural studies (21st century America)
• Encyclopedia of Television