A new study of top-grossing films from last year reveals that films don’t reflect a gender-balanced world.
. Films with at least one woman director or writer were more likely than films with no women in these roles to feature higher percentages of females as protagonists, in major roles, and as speaking characters.
Due to the pandemic, fewer viewers went to the box office and many films were streamed at home last year. So, Lauzen also examined the films that appeared on the Digital Entertainment Group’s weekly Watched at Home Top 20 list in 2021. The results were not substantially different.Not only did fewer female characters make it onto the big screen in 2021, but those that did were often portrayed adhering to outdated gender stereotypes.
Lauzen sees this as a problem for both men and women. “For female characters, personal-life-related goals tend to be about getting or keeping a man or caring for a family. These goals reinforce traditional romantic and domestic concerns for women. They tend not to be about achieving in the public domain. It's so limiting,” Lauzen says.
The stereotypes in film are also problematic for men. “When films equate masculinity with violence, crime or work, it perpetuates a very narrow, and frankly outdated, notion of what it means to be a man,” Lauzen says. “Filmic and ultimately cultural gender equity should be the goal,” says Lauzen. But this year’s study indicates that gender equity is still a long way off. One bright spot is that the trend toward having more meaningful female participation in film in the last twenty years has been an upward one. The number of female protagonists seems to be on an upward trend since 2002.
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