Captain Marvel isn't just breaking down barriers as the first female-led superhero film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe -- it's also ensuring more jobs for women behind the scenes, as well.

This was revealed by screenwriter Geneva Robertson-Dworet, who worked on the recent Tomb Raider reboot. She praised Marvel Studios for being very progressive on this front but admitted more needed to be done to include females in the creative industry.

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"Marvel really went above and beyond with Captain Marvel," Robertson-Dworet told NPR. "Not only did they have Anna Boden, who, along with Ryan Fleck is directing the movie ... they had many female writers working on the project. They also had female producers in the room. And that is really rare to have that."

However, Robertson-Dworet lamented how small the pool of female screenwriters is, especially in the action genre, though she remains hopeful she can help open doors in the future.

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"My female genre-writer friends and I talk all the time about how you could count the number of women who do what we do on two hands," she added. "So when I go up for jobs in the superhero space or in the action space that has a female lead, I'll usually know all the other writers who are competing for the project. I'd say that's a problem that there's so few of us. And we are already talking amongst ourselves about: How can we help other women — who want to do what we're doing — do it?"

Directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck from a script they wrote with Liz Flahive, Carly Mensch, Meg LeFauve, Nicole Perlman and Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Captain Marvel stars Brie Larson as Carol Danvers, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Jude Law as Mar-Vell, Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson, Lee Pace as Ronan the Accuser, Djimon Hounsou as Korath the Pursuer, Gemma Chan as Minn-Erva, Ben Mendelsohn as Talos and Lashana Lynch as Maria Rambeau. The film arrives March 8, 2019.