Where Are the Women? The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2
This is kickass representation: lots of women in gender-neutral roles wielding power, including the female protagonist, herself a figure of authority.
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Where Are the Women? Fathers & Daughters
For a film with a female coprotagonist and lots of women in authoritative supporting roles, it does a lousy job of representing women.
Where Are the Women? The Hallow
There’s only one woman in this movie, and she’s primarily a mother, but at least she gets to do something and act with some agency.
Where Are the Women? Brooklyn
This is an excellent example of how stories about women can become expressions of universal experience (like, the kind that men have too).
Where Are the Women? He Named Me Malala
A smack in the face to a film industry that pretends to believe that girls and women aren’t doing anything useful or interesting in the world.
Where Are the Women? Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
Movies don’t get much worse than this when it comes to female representation. Women exist here almost solely for what they can do for men sexually.
Where Are the Women? Truth
An exception to the unspoken Hollywood rule about dismissing women’s stories as worth telling. (Yet this one probably got told only because it impacted men.)
Where Are the Women? Burnt
Any woman here with a speaking role is nothing more than saintly support for the male protagonist, even when his behavior is at its very worst.
Where Are the Women? The Vatican Tapes
No one gets anything approaching a personal journey here, but at least the one who comes closest is a woman in a role that isn’t particularly gendered.
Where Are the Women? The Keeping Room
A fantastic example of how shifting to women’s perspectives can lend an exciting freshness to tired genres.
