PRESENTATION OF GENDER IN MOVIES

FACTS ABOUT GENDER IN FILMS IN 2014

• Globally, there are 2.24 male characters for every 1 female character.
• Less than a quarter of films surveyed (23.3 percent) had a female lead or co-lead.
• France has the worse gender ratio, 9.1 men to 1 woman.
• Brazil has the best, 1.7 men to 1 woman. The U.S.? 3.4 men to 1 woman.
• Female characters are more than twice as likely to be skinny (38.5 percent vs. 15.7 percent),
• In films, comments made by characters that refer to appearance are directed at women at a rate of FIVE times that of comments directed at men

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