According to the report, only 15 percent of the year’s 100 top-grossing films featured women in leading roles, a rate that has barely changed from 2002, when the Center’s executive director Martha M. Lauzen first began to study the numbers.
Monday, March 17, 2014
Hollywood’s depressing gender problem: New study shows it’s barely improving
According to the report, only 15 percent of the year’s 100 top-grossing films featured women in leading roles, a rate that has barely changed from 2002, when the Center’s executive director Martha M. Lauzen first began to study the numbers.
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It's completely idiotic that there are so few women actors in movies and television alike. With a roughly 50/50 split (though there are actually more women in the world than men) it is outrageous that there is so little representation in media. On top of that, when there are women present in films and television shows, they rarely appear as leading roles, and are often reliant upon male cohorts. If a girl stars in a movie, it is considered a "chick flick". The thing about the media is that if a woman stars in a movie or show, women are the target audience, where as if a man is the star, both women and men are expected to see it.
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