That's a statistic from a report by the Media, Diversity and Social Change Initiative. The report is called "Inequality in 700 Popular Films: Examining Portrayals of Gender, Race, & LGBT Status from 2007 to 2014."
This is the address for that report:
The report also says:
"A total of 21 of the 100 top films of 2014 featured a female lead or roughly equal co lead. This is similar to the percentage in 2007 (20%), but a 7% decrease from the 2013 sample (28%)."
"In 2014, no female actors over 45 years of age performed a lead or co lead role. Only three of the female actors in lead or co lead roles were from underrepresented racial/ethnic backgrounds. No female leads or co leads were Lesbian or Bisexual characters."
"Examining patterns of sexualization by age in 2014 revealed that female teens (13-20 year olds) were just as likely to be sexualized as young adult females."
"Across the 100 top films of 2014, only 15.8% of content creators working as directors, writers and producers were women. Women accounted for only 1.9% of directors, 11.2% of writers, and 18.9% of producers. Put differently, only 2 women directed across the 100 top films of 2014. This is not different from 2013 (2 female directors across 100 top films) or 2007 (3 female directors across 100 top films). Twenty-eight women have worked as directors across the 700 top films from 2007 to 2014. Only three were African American."
Do you think that President Obama and the conglomerate have done NOTHING TO PROMOTE EQUALITY only for women in the entertainment industry? If so, you're wrong.
The report also says:
"Of those characters coded for race/ethnicity across 100 top films of 2014, 73.1% were white, 4.9% were Hispanic/Latino, 12.5% were Black, 5.3% were Asian, 2.9% were Middle Eastern, <1% were American Indian/Alaskan Native or Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, and 1.2% were from "other" racial and/or ethnic groupings. This represents no change in the portrayal of apparent race/ethnicity from 2007-2014."
"Across the 100 top films of 2014, only 5 of the 107 directors (4.7%) were Black."
"Across 4,610 speaking characters in the 100 top films of 2014, only 19 were Lesbian, Gay or Bisexual."
19. That's not even half of the number of people who died instantly in the worst mass murder of American history.
Really, though, all the White House cares about is that everyone keep calling me a slut and trying to find the SICK, SADISTIC, ILLEGAL videos of me online.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, June 28, 2016 @ 6:17 p.m.
