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Friday, August 07, 2015

Women in Hollywood Are Still Few and Far Between

Jezebel: Hollywood’s still into women in front of the camera, just not behind the lens or of color—but we knew that, right? Ava Duvernay, Kathryn Bigelow, Gina Prince-Bythewood can’t be the only women through the gate guys!

USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism released their annual report parsing Hollywood’s representation by the numbers and concluded that, despite the strides of films like Selma made by women, 2014 was pretty great for dudes—like always.

Here are the report’s takeaways: 

- Only 30.2 percent of 30,285 speaking characters were females in the 700 most popular film from 2007 to 2014. 

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