Viola Davis, Michelle Yeoh and Jenna Ortega may have topped the box office and won rave reviews in the likes of “The Woman King,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and …
A new survey of the top 100 grossing domestic releases found that women only accounted for 33% of movie protagonists. That represented an infinitesimal two percentage point increase from 2021, according to the report by the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University. And don’t expect actresses to get as many lines as their male counterparts. Females accounted for 37% of all speaking characters in 2022, up 3 percentage points from 34% in 2021.
Don’t expect those women on screen to be seen in the workplace. A larger percentage of male characters had an identifiable job than female characters . Women in movies were also more likely to reveal whether or not they had a husband or wife. Forty six percent of female characters had an identifiable marital status compared to 36% of male characters.
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