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Gender Inequality In Film By The Numbers (INFO GRAPHIC)

by The Daily Eye Team December 11 2013, 3:49 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 25 secs

The war against gender inequality in film rages on with the New York Film Academy’s latest findings. The school compiled data regarding the depiction of women in the top 500 movies from 2007 to 2012. The results are, unfortunately, in line with the continued rumblings emerging from the industry as of late, in which Sweden has introduced the Bechdel test and a USC study found that 70 percent of the speaking roles in 2012’s 100 highest-grossing movies belonged to men. Click here

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PIROJ WADIA is a journalist of long standing, she was Assistant Editor for Cine Blitz and The Daily, and edited TV & Video World, India’s first & only authentic television magazine. She is equally ardent about television as she is about films, and critiques both. She has been keenly watching and observing television since the 1990s and has witnessed the industry’s growth and sea changes. She has served on the jury for the Indian Television Academy (ITA) and the Indian Documentary Producers’ Association (IDPA); and on the script committee of the Children’s Film Society, India (CFSI). Currently, she is researching on the contribution of the Parsis to Indian cinema.

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