February 17, 2025
While 2024's top 100 movies reflect progress for women in film as leads and co-leads, other underrepresented groups report setbacks.
While 2024's top 100 movies reflect progress for women in film as leads and co-leads, other underrepresented groups report setbacks.
Through leads, co-leads, and directors, we can see the underrepresentation of diversity in movies for gender, race, and ethnicity.
Looking at women in movies, we form behavioral expectations about gender roles that relate to leadership, to speech, and to age.
The skewed race and gender of the film critics that review our top grossing movies might not express what a more diverse group would say.
From top stars' salaries, to the people who speak in films, the Hollywood gender gap can be found in most of the major movies.