Geena Davis is more than an actress, she’s an advocate for gender equality in film and TV. The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media just released new data showing that women aren’t just getting a short shrift here in the U.S., but in movies all around the world. The news is grim. Fewer than 31 percent of all speaking parts go to women. American movies feature fewer female characters than movies in South Korea, Russia and China. What’s more, many of those female characters appear either in sexually revealing attire and few have professional jobs. Women make up only 17 percent of roles as background actors — think extras with non-speaking parts — in both animated and live-action family-rated films. “Maleficent” and “Frozen” might be doing well at the box office, but the report finds the percentage of female speaking characters in the most popular movies has not meaningfully changed in half a century.

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