"Film Dialogue from 2,000 screenplays, Broken Down by Gender and Age"

"Across thousands of films in our dataset, it was hard to find a subset that didn’t over-index male. Even romantic comedies have dialogue that is, on average, 58% male. For example, Pretty Woman and 10 Things I Hate About Youboth have lead women (i.e., characters with the most lines). But the overall dialogue for both films is 52% male, due to the number of male supporting characters...

In 22% of our films, actresses had the most number of lines (i.e., they were the lead). Women are more likely to be in the second place for most number of lines, which occurs in 34% of films. The most abysmal stat is when women occupy at least 2 of the top 3 roles in a film, which occurs in 18% of our films. That same scenario for men occurs in about 82% of films."

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