25/02/2021
Wow.
Women's voices versus men's voices in 25 years of films winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.
This extreme imbalance in gender representation also extends to many other movies. A study of 122 family films by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media found that only 29.2% of 5,554 speaking characters were female -- the same 3 to 1 male/female ratio that existed in 1946.
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To read more about this research on the BBC, visit http://bbc.in/2FfxreN