#GoodRead | Report Finds Wide Diversity Gap Among 2014’s Top-Grossing Films

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"Report Finds Wide Diversity Gap Among 2014’s Top-Grossing Films":

The numbers are stunning: From 2007 through 2014, women made up only 30.2 percent of all speaking or named characters in the 100 top-grossing fictional films released in the United States. That’s bad enough to repeat: For every 2.3 male characters who say “Dude,” there is just one woman saying, “Hello?!”

Read Manohla Dargis' full article at The New York Times here…

#GAReadsGuest UserManohla Dargis, film, movies, The New York Times