Less than 30% of all speaking characters in the 100 top-grossing films are female. “If filmmakers just added five female speaking characters to their current slate of projects (without taking away or changing any of the male characters) and repeated the process for four years, we would be at parity.”
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http://www.thewrap.com/women-given-little-to-say-in-hollywoods-biggest-films-of-2013-guest-blog/