Blink and you might miss them. The first and only living woman to speak in “The Revenant” appears an hour and a half in. The one scene shared only between women in “Spotlight” comes after the climax, ...

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Creating characters that encompass the rich diversity of humanity is particularly pertinent to screenwriting, where representation really does matter. However, gender inclusivity in media has long ...

Things are looking (slightly) up for female representation, according to a Bustle report. Of 20 sampled films, 11 fulfill all three requirements of Alison Bechdel’s litmus test for female ...

Wouldn’t it be lovely if a simple, three-question test could determine whether something, or someone, was feminist? It would be the first question we asked all our Tinder dates, that’s for sure. Enter ...

A few years ago — roughly 70 years too late — people realised that Hollywood had a problem. Whenever there was a woman character in a movie, and writers had bothered to give her a name, chances are ...

A certain kind of book seems practically written to be adapted into a musical. Phantom of the Opera, for example, or Wicked. Then there's Fun Home, based on a graphic novel by a middle-aged lesbian ...

One of the clever recent innovations at the subscription streaming service Fandor is the ability to filter films using the Bechdel Test. Created by cartoonist Alison Bechdel, the Bechdel Test applies ...