2014 Was A Very Rough Year For Women In Film — cinemablend.com

The Silk has published their findings after studying the roles for women in films from 2010 to 2014, and in their breakdown it's noted that only 55.4 percent of the 175 movies screened actually managed to pass the Bechdel Test (a three step quiz that requires a movie to have at least two named female characters, have those female characters talk to each other, and discuss something other than men in order to pass). This number is way down from 2013, which had 67.5 percent of films sampled pass, and is the only year since 2010 to score less than 60 percent - though it is admitted that the sample size from last year was smaller simply due to accessibility. New York Magazine points out that in the past 20 years only 1998, 2002, and 2009 had comparably dismal results.

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