Statistics on women in film
This page collects information about and statistics on women in film.
Women as directors, producers, executives
- On the FSFwiki, we have highlighted in bold the episodes directed by women on many SF TV series. See, e.g., The X-Files, Xena: Warrior Princess, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica.
Women as writers
- On the FSFwiki, we have highlighted in bold the episodes written by women on many SF TV series. See, e.g., The X-Files, Xena: Warrior Princess, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica.
- "Feminist critic Marjorie Rosen documents the situation that, while by the 1920s motion pictures were 'the nation's fourth largest industry,' the percentage of women working as scenarists and screenplay writers slipped from 21 percent in 1928 to 15 percent in 1935, and by 1940 the number had dropped to 11 percent (Popcorn Venus, 397)."[1]
Women as leads
- "Two Female Leads", XKCD went through a variety of films to discover top-billed female actors: virtually no films with two top-billing females; virtually no films with a male/female pair where the female tops the billing; and tons of films with two top-billing males.
Notes
- ↑ Holly Hassel, "Fantasy Film", Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy]], Volume 1 (p.102), citing Marjorie Rosen, Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies, and the American Dream. New York: Avon, 1973.