Hollywood inequality - women hardly get a chance to speak

That there is gender inequality in Hollywood has been revealed from a study of top 100 films released last year - the study has shown that 31.4 per cent of named or speaking roles went to women compared to 68.6 per cent for men. Also, just 32 per cent depicted a woman as a lead - the rest were men. And, to cap it all, just five films portrayed women over 45 in lead roles compared to 26 movies with a man of similar age in a similar part.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 8 September 2016.

The study was conducted by the University of Southern California and in view of the facts above, it can be said that Hollywood is a place of ‘pervasive and systematic’ inequality. Women were more than three times as likely as men to be shown in revealing or sexy clothing and hardly 19 per cent of the directors were female, compared to 81 per cent who were male.
The study concludes that despite the recent controversies over diversity in Hollywood and equal pay, women are still ‘grossly underrepresented’ in the industry. Popular films in 2015 with strong female roles like ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ and ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’, had apparently led to a ‘misplaced optimism’ that things had changed.


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