I’m highlighting female participation in a film with each new review

Another day, another report on how poorly women are faring in Hollywood. I don’t have any control over who gets hired in the industry or which films get made, but I can keep underscoring how abysmal the position of women in the industry is, and how rarely women’s stories get told. Perhaps this will help those movie lovers who don’t seem to grasp how huge a problem this is to begin to understand.

So, as a follow-on to my 2015 Where Are the Women? project, for 2018 (and perhaps beyond), I’ll be adding quick visual icons to the top of each review that will indicate whether a film has a female director, writer, and/or protagonist. Which will manifest at the top of a review page like this, for example:

Or sadly most often like this:

See the first few reviews with this new feature:
• Molly’s Game
• All the Money in the World
• The Post

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A complete guide to the icons:

female director(s)

female/male codirectors

male director(s)

female writer(s)

female/male cowriters

male writer(s)

female protagonist(s) or predominantly female ensemble

female/male coprotagonists or mixed ensemble

male protagonist(s) or predominantly male ensemble