Female characters by the numbers
This means audiences literally get hear the voices of female characters less than those of the male characters. They have fewer opportunities to speak, and they often don't even play a major part in the plot. So essentially, they are both seen and heard less. disproportionate casting of men and womenBoth on the set and in the final product on the screen, the presence of women is visibly deficient.
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Footnotes: (1) Lauzen,
Martha M., Ph.D. "It’s a Man’s (Celluloid) World: On-Screen
Representations of Female Characters in the Top 100 Films of 2014."Center
for the Study of Women in Television and Film. SDSU School of Theatre,
Television, and Film, 2015. Web. 18 Feb. 2015.
<http://womenintvfilm.sdsu.edu/files/2014_Its_a_Mans_World_Report.pdf>. (2) https://griid.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/film-collage-copy.png (3) https://www.nyfa.edu/film-school-blog/gender-inequality-in-film/#!prettyPhoto/0/