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WHERE MY GIRLS AT?

Men Are the Main Character Twice as Often as Women in U.S. Films

Movies like “Woman King” and “TÁR” are the exception, not the rule.

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Women are getting short-shrift on the big screen. That’s the message of a new survey that found female characters account for just one-third of protagonists in the 100 top-grossing U.S. movie releases last year—barely up from the year before. And trans characters amounted to just one-tenth of 1 percent of the roles, the Center for the Study of Women in Television & Film found. Four out of five films had more male characters than female, and two-thirds of those women were white.

Read it at Variety

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