Where Are the Women? rating criteria (updated!)
Criteria for Where Are the Women? rating project, with a few minor tweaks based on my analysis of 295 films over the past 16 months.
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Where Are the Women?: movies that represent women well are just as likely to be profitable as movies that don’t, and are less risky as business propositions
In terms of both budget and profit, it costs nothing to treat women like people onscreen. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women?: mainstream moviegoers are not turned off by films with female protagonists
Hollywood would like to believe otherwise, for reasons known only to them. But here’s proof to the contrary. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women?: critics are slightly more likely to rate a film highly if it represents women well
Rotten Tomatoes critics are 22% more likely to give a good score to films that represent women well, and Metacritic critics are 28% more likely to do so. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women?: best and worst representations of women on film in 2015
The median WATW score and the average score agree: Hollywood movies are, overall, not very good at treating women like people. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women?: only 22% of 2015’s movies had female protagonists
This is not acceptable. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women?: crunching the numbers
Everything we learned from the Where Are the Women? project. (Spoiler: It’s not pretty, but there is hope…) [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? 2015 ranking (final)
A ranking of 2015’s films for their representation of girls and women, including every wide release in North America (and most of those in the UK). [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Big Eyes
Not only a story about a woman but a story about the particular plight of women in a place and time that was not friendly to their talents and ambitions.
Where Are the Women? Love & Mercy
The few women who appear exist solely as support for the male protagonist: a young wife early in his life and, later, a new girlfriend who reinvigorates him.
