...which isn't surprising, but definitely is still discouraging in this day and age. The full study can be found here, but this is a tidbit:
-Joey's Two Cents: I know it's quality over quantity, but a bit more equality certainly wouldn't hurt...thoughts?This study examined the gender of all speaking characters and behind-‐the-‐scenes employees on the 100 top-‐grossing fictional films in 2008. A total of 4,370 speaking characters were evaluated and 1,227 above-‐the-‐line personnel. In addition to prevalence, we assessed the hypersexualization of on screen characters across the 100 movies.
32.8 percent of speaking characters were female. Put differently, a ratio of roughly 2 males to every one female was observed across the 100 top-‐grossing films. Though still grossly imbalanced given that females represent over half of the U.S. population, this is the highest percentage of females in film we have witnessed across multiple studies.
The presence of women working behind-‐the-‐camera is still abysmal. Only, 8% of directors, 13.6% of writers, and 19.1% of producers are female. This calculates to a ratio of 4.90 males to every one female. Films with female directors, writers, and producers were associated with a higher number of girls and women on screen than were films with only males in these gate-‐keeping positions. To illustrate, the percentage of female characters jumps 14.3% when one or more female screenwriters were involved in penning the script.
No shocker here...
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