November 23rd, 2011
10:16 AM ET
USC study confirms gender inequality in filmConfirmed by science: Women are underrepresented in movies. According to the Los Angeles Times, a USC study finds that almost 70 percent of speaking roles belong to men. USC's Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism examined the top 100 grossing movies of 2009, specifically categorizing the 4,342 speaking roles by gender. Women, meanwhile, buy more than 50 percent of the movie tickets. This ratio also isn’t evening out over time; it’s staying the same.
"We see remarkably stable trends," said USC Annenberg associate professor Stacy L. Smith of the gender inequality apparent in Hollywood. "This reveals an industry formula for gender that may be outside of people's conscious awareness." The study also found that, unsurprisingly, when women make or write movies, they feature significantly more female characters. Smith says this is the outcome of male writers and directors telling the stories they know. "If the numbers behind the scenes move,” Smith predicts, “we're likely to see numbers on-screen move."
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Suffer not a wich to live nor a woman to speak but chastise them with your rod. Or something like that.
LOL. BV is a dude. I always thought so. Plus admitting you are Mr. Ed and Starfire. I bow down to you. You are the master troll.
Inequality on film? Kris makes me sit down to pee!!
Stfu vixen no1 cares if your neeeked.
Im a neeeked woman. One with big thingies.
I feel like this is true of all fiction, not just movies.
70% of movie speaking roles go to men.
In real life, where women are involved, it's more like 7%.
The short fat dude in the white hat has a pretty good gig hanging out with all of those chicks.
Proof pleeze. Moron.
I'm a woman and I think this is hogwash. 2 girls 1 cup is the height of the womens movement.
>>>I'm a woman.
No. You are not. You barely qualify as a human being.
Go away. Nobody finds your funny or interesting.
You are boring and pathetic.
Men have more speaking roles because in the real world women talk too much. We go to movies to escape reality.
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@Truth, Lol .. shut up silly :]
Also Fix in Texas=Mr. Ed. Only deacent honest blogger on here is Tracie.
Geez, I hope the taxpayers didn't have to foot the bill for yet another university study performed to state the obvious.....
truth. BV=Mr. Ed=Starfire=guy that works at nursing home and possibly lives in texas and drives truck=THE TROLL.
Im a latina and I see this type of inequality everywhere. When I am buying groceries the clerks are always eyeballing me. They run some yellow pen over my money when I check out. They dont do this to white girls. Us latinas and latinos need to organize a boycott against this raciam. Aztlan Ahora.
Oh please – get a life!!
You cannot prove this by the cast of "2 girls one cup"...