Study: Hollywood is still very much a man's world
The latest study on women in front of the camera finds that female characters are still significantly under-represented on the big screen.
The numbers underscore why pics like Gravity (pictured), toplined by a Sandra Bullock, remain a rarity at the multiplexes. Female characters accounted for only 15% of protagonists in the 100 highest-grossing domestic films of 2013, according to the study Its a Mans (Celluloid) World by veteran researcher Martha Lauzen, exec director of the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State U.
The femme protagonist stats are up 4% from 2011, the last time the survey was conducted, but down 1% from 2002.
Female actors accounted for 30% of all speaking parts in the survey, which has examined some 7,000 screen characters across 300 pics since 2002. Only about 13% of 2013?s top 100 pics featured an equal number of female and male characters.
http://variety.com/2014/film/news/study-female-characters-under-represented-in-movies-1201129236/