Veteran actor-director Barbra Streisand believes women are more powerful than their male counterparts. The 75-year-old actor, who is considered a torchbearer in women rights movement in Hollywood throughout her 57-year long career, said she has written a line in one of her works that boils down to - that females are giving men "the benefit of the doubt that we're equal".

"I have a line in one of my journals. It was actually about how we're giving you (nodding to her male interviewer) the benefit of the doubt that we're equal. I think women are more powerful than men," Streisand told The Hollywood Reporter.